In 2021, our organizations joined together to publish principles outlining nine concrete opportunities to improve and enhance mental health services for children and adolescents. As a coalition, we offer a set of specific and actionable opportunities that increase access to evidence-based prevention, early identification, and early intervention; expand mental health services in schools; integrate mental/behavioral health into pediatric primary care; strengthen the child and adolescent mental and behavioral health workforce; increase insurance coverage and payment; ensure mental health parity; extend access to telehealth; support children in crisis; and address the mental health needs of justice-involved youth.
