The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is proud to be a part of the Campaign for Mental Health Reform (CMHR), a coalition of sixteen national organizations that will release a landmark report: Emergency Response: A Roadmap for Federal Action on America’s Mental Health Crisis tomorrow at 8:45 a.m. in the LBJ Room at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
For immediate release:
July 26, 2005
Contact:
Jim Wood, Director Development and Communications
202.966.7300, ext. 120, jwood@aacap.org
Nuala Moore, Deputy Director, Government Affairs
202.966.7300, ext. 126, nmoore@aacap.org
WASHINGTON, DC — The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is proud to be a part of the Campaign for Mental Health Reform (CMHR), a coalition of sixteen national organizations that will release a landmark report: Emergency Response: A Roadmap for Federal Action on America’s Mental Health Crisis tomorrow.
The report will mark the second anniversary of the report by President Bush’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, “Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America.” The Commission found that the U.S. mental health system is, “fragmented and in disarray, lead[ing] to unnecessary and costly disability, homelessness, school failure and incarceration.”
The CMHR’s Roadmap proposes specific action items that Congress and the Administration should take to reform the public mental health system, including increased access to children’s mental health specialists such as child and adolescent psychiatrists. AACAP President, Richard Sarles, M.D., said, “The Campaign’s Roadmap for transforming mental health care in the United States is critical, especially for children, adolescents, and families living with mental illnesses. We look forward to working with the Campaign, Congress, and the Administration to achieve the Roadmap’s necessary goals.”
The report will be released tomorrow, Wednesday, July 27th, at 8:45 a.m. in the LBJ Room at the U.S. Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C. Speakers will include Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) Michael DeWine (R-OH), Reps. Jim Ramstad (R-MN), Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), Grace Napolitano (D-CA) and CMHR coalition member leadership.
Members of the press are asked to confirm attendance by calling the Campaign for Mental Health Reform at 202.587.2984.
Representing over 7,500 child and adolescent psychiatrists nationwide, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is the leading authority on children’s mental health. AACAP members actively research, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders affecting children, adolescents, and their families.
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is the leading authority on children’s mental health. AACAP members actively research, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders affecting children, adolescents, and their families.
Our Facts for Families, available free of charge on the AACAP website, provide concise and up-to-date information on a wide array of issues relating to children’s mental health. Written in a simple, straightforward manner, these 88 one-page fact sheets are valuable to anyone raising or working with children. In addition, the AACAP routinely refers the media to expert spokespeople on child and adolescent issues, and sponsors The Campaign for America’s Kids – an initiative designed to fund an Advocacy Institute for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, with the goal of mental health for all children.
AACAP Mission: The Mission of the AACAP is the promotion of mentally healthy children, adolescents and families through research, training, advocacy, prevention, comprehensive diagnosis and treatment, peer support and collaboration.
