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Screening in Primary Care!

Click here to access implementation materials for mental health screening in primary care and medical settings.

Health Policy Forum Spotlight Story

NY Health Policy Forum Addresses Mental Health Checkups for Adolescents, IOM Report and USPSTF Recommendations. Watch the Health Policy Forum Video.


TeenScreen Primary Care is a mental health checkup initiative designed to assist healthcare professionals with offering mental health checkups to adolescent patients as a part of routine healthcare.

Click here to learn more about implementing mental health checkups in primary care settings.

Put your school or community on the map and become part of a growing national public health initiative, TeenScreen Schools and Communities.

Click here to learn more about starting a local program in your school-based or community-based setting.
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National Health Experts Convene To Advance Screening

Forum held to explore recent recommendations put forth by the Institute of Medicine and the USPSTF around teen mental health checkups and depression screening in primary care. Click image to read more.

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USPSTF Calls for Screening

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force calls for depression screening for teens in primary care settings, recommending that all teens are routinely screened for depression by their primary care providers. Read more.

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IOM Report Calls for Screening

The Institute of Medicine and National Research Council published a report recommending that the federal government should make preventing mental, emotional and behavioral disorders and promoting mental health in young people a national priority.

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ABC’s Good Morning America

Featured TeenScreen as a national model and underscores the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation for screening in primary care. Click the image to read more.

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TeenScreen's State Resource Center

State Resource Center

Where does your state rank?

Access up-to-date mental health and youth suicide statistics from all fifty states in our comprehensive State Resource Center.

National Center Newsletter

Checkup, Spring Issue

The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups publishes a newsletter called Checkup. Click here to view the Spring Issue (May 2009) or to sign-up for the newsletter.