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Summary of "Are the Children Well?" Policy Brief

The mental health challenges our country’s youth face call for shifting the focus of policy and practice from illness, to promotion of wellness and flourishing. This requires using evidence-based strategies with children and parents, and improving the quality of the environments where children and youth live, learn, play, and grow. This report summarizes current knowledge on children’s mental health, and offers a more-inclusive framework for understanding mental wellness.

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This discussion could be combined with the discussion asked by Dr. Nichols, the president of the ABP on children's mental health crisis in America. We really should be looking at what other groups to break down those silos and see we are all providing pieces of the puzzle. America's children aren't well. They are suffering from poverty, the break down of extended family and safe neighborhoods.

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