The teen years are a time of tremendous change. The TeenScreen Program is dedicated to offering mental health check-ups for youth to families throughout the country. For most parents, screening can be reassuring, demonstrating that their teens are just experiencing typical adolescent “growing pains.” For others, TeenScreen can help parents identify and address a problem, such as teen depression, early. Use the links below to access additional information about mental health screening and the TeenScreen Program.
“I’m a nurse and my husband is a doctor, we thought we’d know…If my husband and I could not identify Nick’s problems, then who could?”
Created to Help Families TeenScreen has grown to become a national public health effort because of the support from one father whose family was affected by youth mental illness. He provided the early financial support to create the TeenScreen Program and later provided guidance to expand the program across the United States so that other parents and families could benefit from mental health screening.
To read answers to questions commonly asked by parents and families about TeenScreen, click here.
Are you concerned about your child? Unfortunately, the National TeenScreen Program is not able to provide mental health screening or clinical advice for individual teens or families. The National TeenScreen Program works by assisting schools and other organizations to develop their own local mental health screening programs that serve parents and teens in their own communities.
Please visit TeenScreen's Resource Linkssection for a listing of organizations that can support you and your family further in determining the best course of action for your child and to locate resources in your community.
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