Our organizations, representing a diverse array of perspectives, are dedicated to promoting the mental health and wellbeing of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In this document, we have identified nine concrete opportunities to improve and enhance mental health services for this population. 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.
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