Mental Health
Children are experiencing a significant and growing mental health crisis. Urgent support is needed to bolster capacity and infrastructure for pediatric mental health.
Focusing on Children's Mental Health
Learn more about the children's mental health crisis and how children's hospitals are addressing the challenges.
National Survey Finds Broad Bipartisan Support Among Parents for Federal Action on Children's Health
Likely voters across party lines support investments in pediatric mental health, children’s hospitals, and the pediatric workforce.
CHA Joins Organizations from Canada, UK to Launch Global Preventing Youth Suicide Collaborative
New partnership brings together children's health leaders from the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom to strengthen suicide prevention in pediatric care settings.
CHA Submits FY27 Appropriations Letter to Congress
This letter to Congress highlights children’s hospitals’ most urgent FY27 funding priorities to protect and strengthen child health.
Prioritize Children’s Health: 2026 Policy Priorities for Federal Policymakers
As Congress and the administration develop health care policies, we encourage them to consider the unique needs of children and the children's hospitals that serve them.
CHA Concerned About Impacts of SAMHSA Cuts on Children’s Health
Grant funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) supports vital programs for children's health.
Four Years On: Children’s Mental Health Remains a National Emergency
Children nationwide continue to struggle with anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and other mental health conditions.
Children’s Hospitals Call on Congress to Confront Alarming Rise in Youth Suicide
As National Suicide Prevention Month begins, Children’s Hospital Association urges lawmakers to expand access to pediatric mental health care and prevention programs.
Addressing Pediatric Suicide
The latest solutions, resources and data on the current mental health crisis for children's hospitals and health systems.
CHA's Response to The MAHA Commission's Make Our Children Healthy Again: Assessment
The Children's Hospital Association encourages HHS to support, engage with, and build upon children’s hospitals’ child health improvement initiatives taking place across the country.
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For the Record
View CHA communications to federal policymakers such as statements for the record, RFI responses, regulatory comment letters and more.