Ensure That Children With Mental Illness Are Protected In The Senate Healthcare Reform Bill

2009 National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
mental illness, childhood mental health, awareness, children, NAMI

Support The Child Healthcare Crisis Relief Act
Help fight the crisis that our nation faces in the shortage of qualified mental health providers to treat children and adolescents living with mental illnesses.

Senators Press for Mental Illness Parity in the SCHIP Program
Congress will soon take up legislation to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and a bipartisan coalition of Senators is pushing for a new requirement that would ensure that all SCHIP plans meet a standard of non-discriminatory coverage for treatment of mental illness.

NAMI Calls For Juvenile Justice Reform!

Reinvesting in the Community: A Family Guide to Expanding Home and Community-Based Mental Health Services and Supports

Supporting Schools and Communities in Breaking the Prison Pipeline: A Guide to Emerging and Promising Crisis Intervention Programs for Youth

Model State Legislation

State Advocacy Toolkit
Our national partner work group is extremely pleased to share this State Advocacy tool kit with you and your organization. We jointly developed this toolkit to help educate state lawmakers about children’s mental health in America. Our work group came together in response to misinformation circulated after release of President Bush’s New Freedom Commission Report on mental health care in America (NFC).

An Overview of Multicultural Issues in Children's Mental Health
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of major reports on multicultural children’s mental health issues and present highlights of key research findings.

Medicaid

The Medicaid program plays a central role in providing coverage to the more than two in five children who reside in low-income families where they often lack access to employer-based coverage.  This section includes resources for those wanting to learn more about the Medicaid program.

Community-Based Alternatives to Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities Grants
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the 10 states that will receive grant awards to develop their children’s mental health system.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Medicaid & Home-Based Services for Children
Various documents discussing the importance of home-based services for children with mental illnesses and how to use Medicaid to obtain such services.

Massachusetts Court Decision on Medicaid Services for Children
A district court in Massachusetts made a landmark decision when it declared that the state had violated the Medicaid Act’s requirements to provide early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services (EPSDT) to children with serious emotional disturbance (SED).

What is Medicaid?