Forum for Children’s Well-Being: Promoting Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health for Children and Youth
The Forum for Children's Well-Being aims to inform a forward-looking agenda for building a stronger research and practice base around the development and implementation of effective and equitable programs, practices, and policies to promote cognitive, affective, and behavioral health for all children, adolescents, and emerging adults.
The Forum was established in response to recommendations from the 2009 NRC/IOM report Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities. The Forum continues to find guidance from the 2019 National Academies report Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development in Children and Youth: A National Agenda.
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"We champion scientific advancements in child and youth mental, emotional, and behavioral health with the goal of creating scalable and sustainable impact."
Advancing Child and Youth Health Care System Transformation: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
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·2025
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Forum for Children's Well-Being hosted an implementation summit titled Advancing Child and Youth Health System Transformation. This event convened a broad range of leaders to support the implementation of recommendations from the 2024 c...
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Vital Signs for Pediatric Health: Infant Mortality
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Vital Signs for Pediatric Health: School Readiness
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Vital Signs for Pediatric Health: Chronic Absenteeism
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Vital Signs for Pediatric Health: High School Graduation
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Counting Children in the U.S. 2020 Census: Assure Our Future is Represented
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Accountable Communities for Health for Children and Families: Approaches for Catalyzing and Accelerating Success
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Business Engagement to Promote Healthy Communities Through Child and Family Well-Being
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A Call to Strengthen Mental Health Supports for Refugee Children and Youth
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Redesigning Provider Payments to Reduce Long-Term Costs by Promoting Healthy Development
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The Interdependence of Families, Communities, and Children’s Health: Public Investments That Strengthen Families and Communities, and Promote Children’s Healthy Development and Societal Prosperity
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Investing in Children to Promote America’s Prosperity
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Workforce Development to Enhance the Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health of Children and Youth: Opportunities and Barriers in Child Health Care Training
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Health Care Reform and Programs That Provide Opportunities to Promote Children’s Behavioral Health
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Unleashing the Power of Prevention
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Health Care Reform as a Vehicle for Promoting Children’s Mental and Behavioral Health
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