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TeenScreen Schools and Communities

Put your community on the map and become part of a growing national public health initiative!


Whether you are a parent, teen, educator, health professional, or concerned community member, you can help bring TeenScreen to your school or community. Local TeenScreen School and Communities programs are developed at the grassroots level and can be implemented in a variety of settings and in a number of ways.

The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups assists communities like yours throughout the country as they develop their own locally operated and sustained youth mental health screening programs.

Developing your local school-based or community-based TeenScreen program involves the following steps:

  1. Download or request the TeenScreen Schools and Communities Information Kit.
  2. Build community support for screening and obtain the necessary approval to implement a mental health screening program.
  3. Develop your screening plan. Click here to read more about the program development process.
  4. Review the TeenScreen Schools and Communities Implementation Guide and complete the Training Test.
  5. Register your local program and sites with the National Center.
  6. Receive the Screening Questionnaire Kit and complete the Screening Questionnaire Training.

To learn more about the program development process, click here.