Innovative Solutions for Youth Mental Health

An upcoming Children’s Hospital Association resource will help pediatric hospitals identify and authorize mental health services and address gaps in state Medicaid implementation.

Threats to Medicaid coverage put youth mental health care at risk. Learn why preserving access for kids and teens is more urgent than ever.

The Speak Our Minds podcast shares what lies ahead on the road to better mental health care for children.

Discover how a quality improvement initiative using the Zero Suicide Framework decreased adolescent patients’ suicidal thoughts by 54% at discharge.

How to turn a fragmented effort into a standardized system across more than a dozen primary care clinics.

Children's Nebraska is equipping primary care providers to identify mental illness to allow early intervention — and better outcomes.

The Talk to Tweens program gives parents and teachers free tools to have conversations on mental health with middle school children.

A children’s hospital provides mental health services for babies and toddlers during one of the most formative periods of their lives.

Integrating therapists into primary care clinics helps 10,000 kids through early detection and prompt intervention.

Asynchronous courses allow hospitals to offer critical violence prevention education to nurses and support staff.

By aligning teams around shared tools, real-time communication, and specialized expertise, a children’s hospital achieved significant gains in patient care, staff confidence, and system efficiency.

A scalable strategy brought consistency across hospital sites and improved results.

Join CHA's Pediatric Learning Solutions to explore how one hospital created a safer care environment for patients, family, and staff.

A pathway at St. Louis Children’s Hospital decreases workplace violence and length of stay for patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

After developing an in-house certification program, behavioral health staff turnover fell by half, patient restraints decreased by 44%, and employee engagement skyrocketed.

A pediatric emergency physician discusses how evidence-based tools can help providers reshape the ED’s role in mental health care.

Sending handwritten notes to pediatric patients following a suicide attempt can reduce suicide rates.

A five-minute process led to a 67% reduction in the use of restraints for behavioral health patients in the emergency department.

Dayton Children's Hospital decreased its seven-day behavioral health unit readmission rate by nearly 50%.

One children’s hospital reduced boarding times of behavioral health patients by 36% with changes to processes, technology, and staffing.

A crisis response program reduces emergency department visits by meeting patients in their homes during a crisis.

A personal connection helped expand developmental care for children.

One pediatrician is leading research and program efforts to understand the challenges and benefits of digital media behaviors among families.

A children’s hospital brings behavioral health care into schools to address widespread violence in its community.

Learn how one children's hospital sought to build community solutions to address both mental and behavioral health needs, as well as social determinants of health.

A system of behavioral health centers increases access and intervention for students in more than 280 New York schools.

The collaborative is part of Children Hospital Association's ongoing work to address the youth mental health crisis.

The pilot clinic trains future providers to save lives today.

Explore how Children’s Hospital Association and our members are improving the continuum of care to ensure optimal patient outcomes and experiences.

A new program had a 7,000% increase in patient visits in just two years.