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Every
child, every need
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.
Our Campaign emphasizes that:
children of all ages can have
mental health problems
mental
health problems in children are treatable
with
treatment, children can get better
stigma
should not cause adult caregivers or the child to reject treatment
due to shame, embarrassment
or prejudice.
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 17 million
Marylanders
with campaign messages.
To get free literature on children's mental health, please click here to visit .
More information:
Kari Gorkos
410.235.1178 ext 215
info@mhamd.org
"Promoting
mental health for all Americans will require scientific know-how, but even
more importantly, a societal resolve that we will make the needed investment. The
investment does not call for massive budgets; it calls for the willingness
of each of us to educate ourselves and others about mental health and mental
illness, and to confront
the attitudes, fear, and misunderstanding that remain as barriers before us.”
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
U.S. Surgeon General
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