Oct 01, 2024
The 2024 MHA Young Leaders Council annual report, Past Lessons, Future Insights: an Intergenerational Approach to Youth Mental Health, is based on interviews conducted by the council with individuals who lived through historical crises such as the AIDS…
Aug 22, 2024
In response to widespread increases in mental health distress among young people, youth leaders have stepped up to help their peers and drive policy change. Peer support is a key youth priority for promoting young people’s mental health and well-being…
Jul 24, 2024
This report ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on fifteen mental health prevalence and access measures for youth and adults. These measures are collected from federal data sources, including data from SAMHSA, the CDC, and the…
May 02, 2024
In 2024, for the first time since 1997, the Office of Management and Budget published revised standards for federal data on race and ethnicity, but more progress is needed to better understand mental health disparities in the U.S. This brief is part of…
Dec 07, 2023
Amid this youth mental health crisis, several young advocates have emerged to challenge the status quo, insisting that the world pay attention. Young people have mobilized, organized, and fought to usher in a new era of mental health advocacy, and they…
Oct 05, 2023
In 2023, Mental Health America, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Center for Law and Social Justice Policy (CLASP) created an equity-centered framework to…