The Hennepin County Children’s Mental Health Collaborative Governance Committee will NOT meet on December 16, 2021, as previously scheduled. They will meet next on January 19, 2022.

The Collaborative needs your help recruiting parents and caregivers who have children receiving mental health services, or seeking services, for children ages 0-21. We want to know what their child’s mental health experience has been like as part of the children’s mental health system.

The CMHC is recruiting parents and caregivers who have children receiving mental health services to participate in Parent Interviews. We are seeking feedback from families to help us improve the children’s mental health systems. The interviews will focus on the families experience as they sought children’s mental health services.

NAMI Minnesota’s top priority for the 2021 legislative session was to pass a comprehensive workforce bill targeted at increasing the number of mental health professionals, and increasing diversity and becoming more culturally informed.

The NIHCM Foundation released the following data and joining experts calling for renewed attention to how this past year impacted children’s short-and-long-term mental health and well-being. The trends in children’s mental health were sobering leading up to the pandemic, with 1 in 5 children experiencing a mental illness and rates of major depression rising dramatically