Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Behavioral Health Disorders

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Mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders, including mental illness and substance use disorders, affect every U.S. population group, community, and neighborhood. Existing infrastructure focuses more on responding to MEB crises, through treatment and recovery, rather than preventing them through evidence-based policy approaches and programs. Prevention services that do exist are insufficiently funded and fragmented.

Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders focuses on building and sustaining a comprehensive prevention infrastructure for MEB disorders as a whole. Conclusions and recommendations of this report focus on closing research gaps, supporting an MEB disorder prevention workforce, ensuring adequate data to support prevention and reporting, establishing clear governance, securing sustainable funding, and enacting evidence-based policies.

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384 pages · 6 x 9 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73092-9
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73093-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/28577

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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There is now a major need to prioritize the prevention of MEB disorders in order to minimize pain and suffering and reduce the immense burden on treatment and recovery systems. The National Academies were tasked with creating a plan for building and sustaining an infrastructure capable of delivering prevention interventions for behavioral disorders. The resulting 2025 report, Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders, makes actionable recommendations for various audiences, as presented in this interactive resource.

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