Center for Mental Health Promotion
Current Focus
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This site provides information that can help parents and caregivers gain a better understanding of how responsive and sensitive interactions can enhance the experience of raising a child. These interactions are key to helping your child become a physically and emotionally healthy adult.
Raising children does come with challenges. Information that can help navigate the different types of challenges that may be encountered by parents, particularly those that may be out of conscious awareness, is also included.
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Articles and sites that focus on the factors that contribute to sensitive and responsive care for children. Resources for the typical Challenges that parents may encounter in raising children is also here, as well as Parent Resources and Support Programs.
This section features past support devoted to increasing the understanding of the attachment process through research, the sponsorship of conferences, and the development of media projects. It also lists the recipients of the
Mental Health Strategies and Resources
List of articles and sites that address the current state of mental health in this country along with strategies that, if implemented widely, could promote mental health in children and their families. Included are organizations that advocate for programs and policy changes that could enhance early relational health. Also listed are efforts to integrate mental health care in pediatric practices.