Toward a public mental health promotion and intervention system for youth.

Substantial limitations exist at all levels of mental health care for youth in most communities in the United States. Particular gaps exist in the areas of prevention, mental health promotion, and early intervention programs. The national movement toward enhancing mental health programs for youth in schools offers an important opportunity to fill gaps in the prevention-services continuum toward the development of a Public Mental Health Promotion and Intervention System for Youth. A strategy--the Child and Adolescent Program Planning Schema (CAPPS)--is presented to analyze gaps in a community's system of mental health programs for youth, and to facilitate planning toward development of a full continuum of programs from broad, population-based prevention, and mental health promotion strategies to treatment of youth with more established problems.

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