Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Rady Children鈥檚 Hospital in San Diego called the surge of children coming into its emergency department with behavioral health needs 鈥渦nprecedented,鈥 and responded by placing mental health professionals in primary care practices.
In this conversation, three experts from Dartmouth Health discuss their five-part virtual behavioral health training program, "Keeping Students Safe: Supporting Youth in Mental Health Distress."
Northern Light Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine, is addressing children鈥檚 mental health needs by providing psychological first aid training (PFA) to community partners including local school employees, camp counselors and hospital teams.
AdventHealth鈥檚 Be a Mindleader initiative aims to help children and parents become more comfortable discussing mental health and connect families to counseling services.
Lidera ConscienteMENTE is a first-of-its-kind destigmatization campaign creating curated expert information designed specifically for a Hispanic audience to encourage open conversations about mental health.
Intermountain Health invited 鈥淭he Defensive Line,鈥 a group of professional athletes who have struggled with their own mental health issues, to talk with high school students in Las Vegas鈥檚 Clark County School District about the importance of addressing mental health.
In this conversation, Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., CEO and president of Dartmouth Health and 2024 AHA board chair, talks with Jeremy Musher, M.D., chief behavioral medical officer at Lifepoint Health, about common obstacles in the behavioral health field, including access and reimbursement, as well as鈥
Providence, R.I.鈥檚 Butler Hospital, a part of Care New England, is reaching out to teens as part of its mission as the state鈥檚 only nonprofit, freestanding psychiatric hospital.
Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center's new intensive outpatient program is designed to support young people dealing with issues such as anxiety, depression, stress, trauma and suicidal ideation that impact their school, relationships, family and/or community.
. In this conversation, Jessica Galo, director of specialty care at AdventHealth for Children, and Jaeann Ashton, marketing director of Women's and Children's at AdventHealth, explore how the 鈥淏e a Mindleader鈥 campaign is leading the way to improving adolescent mental health with these life-鈥