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Where are Young Children in the SAMHSA Portfolio? Larke Nahme Huang, Ph.D.

Where are Young Children in the SAMHSA Portfolio? Larke Nahme Huang, Ph.D. Senior Advisor on Children Office of the Administrator, SAMHSA Policymaker’s Meeting - November 17, 2006. Children & Families Matrix Work Group SAMHSA’s Vision

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Where are Young Children in the SAMHSA Portfolio? Larke Nahme Huang, Ph.D.

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  1. Where are Young Children in the SAMHSA Portfolio? Larke Nahme Huang, Ph.D. Senior Advisor on Children Office of the Administrator, SAMHSA Policymaker’s Meeting - November 17, 2006

  2. Children & Families Matrix Work Group SAMHSA’s Vision is for all children and youth to live full lives in the community - to have an education, preparation for employment, and meaningful relationships with family and friends. SAMHSA’s Mission is to improve outcomes for children and youth with and/or at risk for mental, substance use and/or co-occurring disorders, and their families by increasing access to a continuum of comprehensive, integrated, culturally and linguistically competent services and supports—that include prevention, early intervention, treatment, and recovery.

  3. SAMHSA’s Children and Families Workgroup Promotes Collaboration Across all 3 Centers to: • Fund grants jointly across Centers (e.g., Child • and Adolescent State Infrastructure Grant). • Develop TA resources and activities • (e.g., TA Inventory, strategies for linking mental • health, substance use, and primary care); and • Collaborate with other Federal partners • (e.g., Federal/National Partnership for • Transforming Child & Family Mental Health • & Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment; • Federal Partners Collaborative for Social & • Emotional Development of Young Children Ages 0-5)

  4. Children and Families Matrix Work Group: Action Plan • Strategic Action Item: • Establish a national initiative to promote • healthy development and resiliency of • young children, reaching their parents/ • caregivers earlier to prevent or reduce • mental and/or substance use disorders. New Freedom Commission on Mental Health: • 4.1: Promote the mental health of young • children

  5. CF Work Group: Sub-committee on Young Children • Develop SAMHSA’s Plan for Young Children • Coordinate efforts across 3 Centers • Highlight importance of early years for • SAMHSA staff • 0-5 Collaborative of federal partners and 12 TA Centers focusing on 0-5 • Federal consensus statement

  6. Sampling of SAMHSA 0-5 Efforts • CMHS: • System of Care – 6 Early childhood • grants & Community of Practice • Prevention & Early Intervention  30% grantees serve infants; 62% serve 0-5 • National Child Traumatic Stress Network 44 of 53 centers serve 0-7 year olds

  7. Sampling of SAMHSA 0-5 Efforts • CSAP: • “Building Blocks for Healthy Future” • Caregivers of 3-6 yr olds, model healthy behaviors; 85,000 kits • National Head Start Association/National • Assoc of Elementary Schools • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Center for Excellence- resources, training, TA on prevention & services • CSAT: • Pregnant & Postpartum Women • Substance Abuse Residential Treatment • Programs for women with their children, • mostly 0-7 year olds

  8. Visit SAMHSA’s Children and Families Webpage for More Information: http://www.samhsa.gov/Matrix/matrix_families.aspx

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