» Mental Health Programs Improve Youth Performance

Systems of care -- coordinated networks of community-based mental health services and supports for children and youth with serious mental health challenges -- are able to dramatically improve the academic, behavioral and emotional performance of participating youth.

Systems of care -- coordinated networks of community-based mental health services and supports for children and youth with serious mental health challenges -- are able to dramatically improve the academic, behavioral and emotional performance of participating youth according to a new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

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Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration

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Human beings have one amazing power, but one power only -- the power of choice.

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Perhaps next time I will be successful... Perhaps it will only take once more.... How would you feel if you stopped just before you were going to be successful and so robbed yourself of what you had been hoping for...?

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