Abstract
In 2000, the report of the Surgeon General’s Conference on Children’s Mental Health dramatically summarized the state of our nation’s mental health system for children and adolescents as follows: “Children and families are suffering because of missed opportunities for prevention and early identification, fragmented treatment services, and low priority for resources.” The Surgeon General, Dr. David Satcher, made the analogy that “there is no mental health equivalent to the federal government’s commitment to childhood immunization,” implying that such an approach is necessary to address the mental health crisis for youth in our nation (United States Public Health Service, 2000).
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