Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

Part II: Topic Specific Resources: Data and Outcomes

• Children’s Mental Health Publications
  (http://nccp.org/publications/mentalhealth_pubs.html)
  National Center for Children in Poverty
  These publications address a range children’s mental health topics including findings related to school readiness, social-emotional development, intervention, trauma, maternal depression, financial challenges, and policy.
• Early Care and Learning Publications
  (http://nccp.org/publications/earlycareandlearning_pubs.html)
  National Center for Children in Poverty
  These publications address a range childcare issues and their data outcomes including challenges, policy implications, teaching strategies, financial challenges, promoting school readiness and well-being.
• Kids Count Data Center
  (http://datacenter.kidscount.org/?gclid=CKfJ6cbDxaACFSZo5Qodr1Wgbw)
  Annie E. Casey Foundation
  This database of national statistics provides information on hundreds of measures of child well-being.
• Publications/Multimedia
  http://www.aecf.org/KnowledgeCenter.aspx
  Annie E. Casey Foundation
  These resources have been prepared with one or more of several priority audiences in mind—including advocates, policymakers, practitioners, the media, researchers, and community members—and range from data on key indicators of child, family, and community well-being; evaluation studies; reflections and lessons learned to emerging practices; insight and evidence-driven tools and approaches, stories, and case studies; and overview information and fact sheets on Annie E. Casey Foundation initiatives.
• Research and Statistics—Facts and Figures
  (http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/facts.html)
  U.S. Department of Education
  Data and analysis on education across the nation is presented here.
• Science News on Children and Adolescents
  (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/science-news-about-children-and-adolescents.shtml)
  National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
  This collection of articles features information and data on a wide spectrum of issues relating the mental health of children and adolescents.
• Systems of Care Materials
  (http://www.samhsa.gov/children/systemofcaremat.asp)
  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
  Reports featured here are based upon findings from system of care communities. The early childhood systems of care short report will be available here on National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day 2010, which is on Thursday, May 6, 2010.