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Mental Health
The following is a list of valuable information resources in child and family mental health. The web sites of the organizations listed offer a broad range of written and technical assistance resources for administrators, providers, and families. We hope you will visit the web sites listed under Data Bases/Electronic Libraries for access to an extensive listing of publications and information resources for the field of child and family mental health.
 = Designates GUCCHD Resources
Children's Mental Health
- Atlantic Information Services, Inc. (AIS) develops specialized news, data and analysis for managers in hospitals, managed care plans, medical group practices, other providers and provider organizations, employers, attorneys and consultants. Three areas of focus are Managed Care, Physician Practice Management, and Medicare Compliance.
- Autism Society of America Promotes lifelong access and opportunities for persons within the autism spectrum and their families, to be fully included, participating members of their communities through advocacy, public awareness, education, and research related to autism.
- Child and Adolescent Services Research Center CASRC focuses on mental health care issues for vulnerable children, including children in public service sectors. In addition, CASRC specializes in longitudinal studies of children at risk for development of mental disorders and other problems in psychosocial functioning, and the effectiveness of early preventive interventions.
- Child Welfare League of America CWLA is an association of almost 1,000 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist over 2.5 million abused and neglected children and their families each year with a wide range of services.
- Children's Defense Fund CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. CDF pays particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities.
- Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted.
- National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems mission encompasses all organizations serving people with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders-- representing behavioral healthcare systems that are committed to the delivery of responsive, accountable, and clinically effective treatment and prevention programs for children, adolescents, and adults with mental and substance use disorders.
- National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health provides national leadership to the maternal and child health community in three key areas of program development, policy analysis and education, and state-of-the-art knowledge to improve the health and well-being of the nation's children and families.
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the United States.
Databases/Electronic Libraries
- Child Trends, Inc. is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that studies children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analysis.
Early Childhood
- Head Start is a national program that provides comprehensive developmental services to low-income, pre-school children ages three to five and social services for their families.
- SIDS Alliance is a national, non-profit, voluntary health organization dedicated to the support of SIDS families, education and research.
- SIDS Network offers up-to-date information as well as support for those who have been touched by the tragedy of SIDS/OID.
- Smart Start is a comprehensive public-private initiative to help all North Carolina children enter school healthy and ready to succeed. Smart Start programs and services provide children under age six, access to high-quality and affordable childcare, health care and other critical family services.
- The Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children is a nonprofit organization advocating for individuals who work with or on behalf of children with special needs, birth through age eight, and their families.
- Zero to Three A national, nonprofit organization dedicated solely to advancing the healthy development of babies and young children.
Families and Children's Organizations
- Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health and long-term care for all Americans.
- Family Support America is an alliance of people and organizations supporting and strengthening America’s families.
- Family Voices A diverse group, representing a wide variety of children, health conditions, families, and communities.
- Fathers Network celebrates and supports fathers and families raising children with special health care needs and developmental disabilities
Federal and State Governments
- Head Start is a national program that provides comprehensive developmental services to low-income, pre-school children ages three to five and social services for their families.
- National Institute of Mental Health Information on specific mental disorders, diagnosis and treatment, "Mental Illness in America", Consensus Conference proceedings, NIMH long range plans & research reports, publications order forms, quicktime videos, information on the DEPRESSION Awareness, Recognition, & Treatment (D/ART) and the Anxiety Disorders Education Program, and other resources (también publicaciones en Español para pacientes y el público en general)
- Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration SAMHSA's mission within the Nation's health system is to improve the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
Georgetown University and Medical Center
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