In May 2022, the Children, Youth & Family Funders Roundtable (Roundtable) held three virtual calls focused on the children and youth mental health crisis, including a funder peer call designed to identify shared questions and obstacles to funding. Five themes emerged: 1) making mental health a policy and funding priority, 2) developing the mental health…
Healthy and positive child development emerges best in the context of nurturing, warm, and responsive early parent- and caregiver-child relationships, when children are surrounded by safe communities with strong trust and social connectedness. This landing page offers information on the Center for the Study of Social Policy’s approach, frequently asked questions, blog posts, additional resources,…
The Perspectives on Early Relational Health Series brings together a diverse group of parents, pediatricians, researchers, and providers to share their perspectives on why early relational health matters, and what they are doing to support and promote foundational early relationships.
At the end of 2021, more than two dozen funders came together for the first Early Relational Health (ERH) Funders Summit, co-sponsored by Einhorn Collaborative with the ERH Coordinating Center at the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP). These funders are part of a new community – the ERH Funders Community – who…
For decades, field leaders and funders have focused on developmental screening and kindergarten readiness as markers of child and family well-being. While those efforts have advanced a policy and community emphasis on Head Start, universal Pre-K, and other efforts in early education, public officials have placed much less emphasis on the critical importance of foundational…
This article from the American Academy of Pediatrics provides strategies and concrete examples to help pediatric health clinicians, schools, and other community partners work together toward youth suicide prevention efforts. Strategies include building community partnerships,
Mental Health First Aid is a training program for peers, teachers, parents, anyone who wants to know how to identify mental health issues and respond to them appropriately.
A new US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) study published in the American Medical Association’s journal JAMA Pediatrics reports significant increases in the number of children diagnosed with mental health conditions. The study, conducted by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), finds that between 2016 and 2020, the number of children ages…
Historic and modern-day policies rooted in discrimination and oppression have created and widened harmful inequities impacting many communities of color. Effectively and equitably addressing mental health requires intervening at systemic and policy levels to dismantle the structures that produce negative outcomes like generational poverty, intergenerational and cultural trauma, racism, sexism, and ableism. CLASP identified these…
These infographics from 2020 and 2021 show the widespread nature of the mental health crisis among young people and the challenges they face accessing treatment.