NATIONAL ACADEMIES RELEASES NEW REPORT
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. The committe which includes Margaret Kuklinski, PhD who is the Director of the Social Development Research Group (SDRG) and our Acting Director of the Center for Communities That Care (CTC) worked for 18 months to develop conclusions and recommendations that 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.
Report highlights are also available.
