Innovative Solutions for Youth Mental Health

From coverage and funding to workforce and community support, every decision by policymakers has downstream effects on children, families, and the systems that care for them.

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.

An integrated developmental and mental health care program provides unique interventions and treatment plans for children and their families.

These guidelines help children’s hospitals and school systems make informed decisions when adopting AI solutions that address youth mental health.

The first classifications for kids at risk reveal why some fall through the cracks and how systems can support them sooner.

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.

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.

Children’s hospitals are using simulation, tiered response teams, and proactive planning to protect patients and staff.

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

This short-form documentary challenges lawmakers to acknowledge the mental health crisis—and act now before more children are lost.

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.

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

The pilot clinic trains future providers to save lives today.

A new facility with a new approach will provide comprehensive care for the whole child in one place.

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

Children's hospitals have expanded the typical boundaries of hospital care to ensure kids receive essential mental health care at every point in their journey.

EPSDT helps ensure children receive care that supports their physical, mental, and developmental health.

A personal connection helped expand developmental care for children.