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National Center for Children in Poverty:
There are effective treatments, services, and supports that can help children and youth with mental health problems and those at risk to thrive and live successfully.
One in 10 youth has serious mental health problems that are severe enough to impair how they function at home, school, or in the community.
A greater proportion of children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have mental health problems than children and youth in the general population.
Mental health services and supports vary depending on the state in which a child or youth with mental health needs lives.
A gap also exists between need and treatment for youth with substance use disorders that sometimes occur with mental health problems.
Children and youth with mental health problems have lower educational achievement, greater involvement with the criminal justice system, and fewer stable and longer-term placements in the child welfare system than children with other disabilities.
Children and youth in elementary school with mental health problems are more likely to be unhappy at school, be absent, or be suspended or expelled.
Among all students, African-American students are more likely to be suspended or expelled than their white peers (40% vs. 15%).[20]
Family support and family-based treatment are critical to children and youth resilience.
New York, NY: , Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Posted on November 2, 2006 11:07 PM
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