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Note: The Children’s Mental Health Network ceased operation in December, 2023. This archived website is available for you to peruse past articles and our vast library of research articles and news sources on children’s mental health, dating back to 2012.

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Senate HELP Committee brings reason, civility and comprehensiveness to mental health reform

Posted on January 29, 2016
On January 20th, 2016, something remarkable happened at the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Hearing…
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Youth peer support now part of the service array in Michigan – Young voices lead the way

Posted on January 08, 2016
Morning Zen Guest Blog Post ~ Krissy Dristy “Loneliness is the most terrible poverty” – Mother Teresa…
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Documentary film exposes heroin addiction; Congress debates; CDC stymied in abuse prevention efforts

Posted on January 01, 2016
I just finished watching the new HBO documentary, Heroin: Cape Cod. It is a raw, up close and personal…
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Preventing Stage 4 Mental Illness—Call your congressional representative and let them know it is possible

Posted on December 09, 2015
Morning Zen Guest Blog Post ~ Dennis D. Embry What is Stage 4 mental illness? Surprisingly, the answer to that…
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Is a digital device in your child’s future this holiday season?

Posted on December 09, 2015
Morning Zen Guest Blog Post ~ Amy Williams Whether you are dusting off your stockings to hang by the…
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Why equating mental illness with violence harms us all

Posted on December 04, 2015
Morning Zen Guest Blog Post ~ Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY) We too often forget that those struggling with mental illness…
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Children’s mental illnesses are socially contagious…

Posted on December 03, 2015
Morning Zen Guest Blog Post ~ Dennis Embry What? Our kids are catching mental illnesses? Yes, but not typically…
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Replace labels with love

Posted on November 25, 2015
Every once in awhile I meet someone who reminds me that the advocacy movement for children’s…
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Innocence Lost: Tooth Fairies and School Lockdowns

Posted on November 23, 2015
Morning Zen Guest Blog Post ~ Eliot Brenner The Truth About the Tooth FairyMy 9 year-old daughter ran…