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School Success

The Campaign promotes strategies to help children with mental and behavioral health needs succeed in school.

Access to services

The Campaign works to ensure that children with behavioral health needs have meaningful access to high quality services and supports.

Substance Abuse Prevention

The Campaign has launched a three-year project aimed at preventing youth substance abuse by increasing access to effective screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment.

Recent Newsletters

January 25, 2016

As the 2017-2018 legislative session begins, the Children's Mental Health Campaign continues its tradition of advocating for policy to improve the lives of children and families in the Commonwealth by ensuring access to timely, quality behavioral health care services...Read More>

August 24, 2015

August News

It's been a busy summer for the Children's Mental Health Campaign! Thank you for your continued support and advocacy even through the hottest and most humid days of the summer...Read More>

July 17, 2015

July news

Thanks to your stellar advocacy, the Fiscal Year 2016 budget supports children's behavioral health in a few key ways. The $38 billion budget, signed by Governor Baker today, includes...Read More>

mARCH 4, 2013

UPDATE: GOVERNOR'S BUDGET RELEASED

Governor Baker released his recommendations for the state's FY2016 budget this afternoon. Here are the highlights for children's behavioral health, agency by agency. Please remember that these are more of a policy statement from the Governor than the final word on FY16 funding. Read more

february 11, 2015

FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER

The CMHC has received a grant from the C.F. Adams Charitable Trust for a project whose goal is to develop a better understanding of psychiatric "boarding," a problem facing children and adolescents with mental health disorders, their caregivers, health care providers, and hospitals across the Commonwealth. Read more

CMHC on Twitter

Thanks to @Barber4StateRep @JenFlanaganMA and @SenJasonLewis for leading the charge to invest in #prevention during the marijuana debate!

3 days 10 hours ago

RT @WBUR: OPINION: We need to assist child psychiatrists -- a scarce resource -- practicing in underserved areas: https://t.co/5k2Ymf3GZg via @cogwbur

1 week 6 days ago

RT @ZEROTOTHREE: A child’s brain undergoes an amazing period of development frm birth to 3 - producing >1MILL neural connections/sec… https://t.co/NMu2Tzqeyd

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