June 18: Nia West-Bey and Isha Weerasinghe presented at “Understanding the Mutual Relationship Between Income and Mental Health and Strategies to Improve Outcomes,” a webinar hosted by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.
CLASP is pleased to announce the spinoff and launch of a new youth-focused nonprofit that builds upon two decades of youth policy work: The National Collaborative for Transformative Youth Policy.
The Youth Mental Health Corps program expands the available provider types in alignment with young people’s preferences and increases access to providers who share identity, community, and experiences with young people.
With Nia West-Bey and Joseph Yusuf, The Forum for Children’s Well-Being hosted a 2-day, virtual workshop on the science of engaging youth in research, practice, and policy aimed at advancing youth well-being. Panels highlighted evidence around youth engagement outcomes as well as best practices and…
Youth mental health needs existed before the pandemic; indeed, while these needs were clearly growing for years there has long been a mismatch between the level of need and the services available.
By Nia West-Bey Our nation has a well-documented shortage of clinical mental health providers. The truth is that we will never have enough mental health clinicians to meet young people’s mental health needs, nor are they the kinds of providers that young people prefer. CLASP’s…
On April 4 and 5, 2023, The Utah Office of Substance Use and Mental Health, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and the National Alliance on Mental Illness, UTAH (NAMI Utah) hosted the first-ever Youth-in-Transition Policy Summit. The summit highlighted five policies focused…