Supporting Behavioral Health at Home
Children do best when they are at home with their family. The Children’s Mental Health Campaign works on ensuring children and their families are able to receive high-quality behavioral healthcare which allows children to remain at home or return home without delay. Despite significant improvements in the availability of behavioral healthcare, ongoing barriers prevent children from receiving timely services, including:
- Finding the right point of entry to receive care
- Long waits for outpatient and in-home care and lengthy stays in emergency departments or other non-psychiatric settings as clinicians try to find appropriate placement
- Lack of coordination among care providers and/or state agencies
- Difficulty in finding the appropriate authority to address a concern or resolve a conflict