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The Caring for Every Child's Mental Health Campaign is an outreach project to educate parents, teachers, caregivers, policy makers and all caring adults about mental health and mental illnesses in children. Since the Campaign's inception, we have delivered, produced and distributed over 900,000 pieces of literature, exhibited at more than 350 health fairs, and conducted media campaigns reaching over seventeen million Marylanders with campaign messages. |
Our Campaign materials emphasize that:
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"We must hasten the day when no child or adolescent need be too hard to handle, too sad to survive, too strange and angry to live among us, too ill to laugh, play and love." National Advisory Mental Health Council, 1999 |
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children of all ages can have a mental illness
the child to reject treatment
due to shame, 
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