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Building a youth-centered mental health care system

Find new ways to address youth mental health and how health care leaders and communities can come together to achieve long-lasting impact.

Taking on the youth mental health crisis

Today's youth mental health crisis is challenging families, schools, communities and health organizations. It's raising pressure on health care leaders to find new approaches to a pressing problem — a youth-centered health care ecosystem for mental health.

Change will require new concepts, expanded insights and strong partnerships. It's all part of thinking differently to enable comprehensive access, interventions, engagements and measurements to better support the demands of today's youth.

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Supporting youth mental health

Dr. Yusra Benhalim shares insights on the challenges we must overcome to reach youth.