CURRENT PROJECTS

REACH Institute staff have been involved in numerous projects to promote mental health in children and adolescents.  The goals of these projects are to support parents and families, advance mental healthcare among practitioners, help schools to help children, promote and improve early identification and diagnosis of mental illness, implement best practices, and train providers in the most recent research advances.  Please click on the links to learn more about these innovative projects.  

Supporting Parents and Families

• Developing Mental Health Indicators for U.S. Children and Adolescents: The Action! Signs Project

• Enhancing Mental Health Treatment for Youth in Foster Care

• Parent Empowerment Programs - Overview

• Parent Empowerment Program - Utah

Advancing Mental Healthcare Among Primary Care Practitioners

• Developing Mental Health Indicators for U.S. Children and Adolescents: The Action! Signs Project

• Guide Lines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC)

• Pediatric Psychopharmacology Program - Mini Fellowship

Helping Schools Help Kids

• Developing Mental Health Indicators for U.S. Children and Adolescents: The Action! Signs Project

• New York City Mental Health Assessment Partnership

• New York School Depression Awareness, Recogniation, and Treatment (DART) Partnership

• Prairie Evaluation Project

• School Mental Health Alliance

• School Support

• "Do the Write Thing" - The National Campaign to Stop Violence

Improving Early Identification and Diagnosis

• Developing Mental Health Indicators for U.S. Children and Adolescents: The Action! Signs Project

• Juvenile Justice

• New York City Mental Health Assessment Partnership

• New York School Depression Awareness, Recognition, and Treatment (DART) Partnership

• Prairie Evaluation Project

Implementing Best Practices ~

Medications, Psychotherapies, and Other Interventions

• A Caregiver’s Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment Services

• Expert Consensus on the Management of Antipsychotic Side Effects

• Guide Lines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC)

• New York School Depression Awareness, Recognition, and Treatment (DART) Partnership

• School Support

• Treatment Recommendations for the Use of Antipsychotics for Aggressive Youth

Training Initiatives

• Child & Adolescent Training Institute in Evidence-based Treatments

• Pediatric Psychopharmacology Program (PPP) Mini-Fellowship

• Parent Empowerment Training Program (PEP)

• Evidence-based Approaches for Systems Serving Youth (EASSY)