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Two Nevada nonprofits partner to eliminate youth suicide
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32724
Subject(s) - general partnership , alliance , mental health , state (computer science) , psychology , political science , public relations , medical education , medicine , psychiatry , law , algorithm , computer science
Hope Means Nevada (HMN), the community‐based nonprofit focused on eliminating youth suicide in the state, announces its partnership with the Children's Advocacy Alliance (CAA). This partnership will enable HMN to access and monitor data CAA collects in its annual Children's Report Card, which provides insights into factors impacting youth mental health, a March news release stated. Since 2000, CAA's Children's Report Card gathers and analyzes data to better understand how the state is taking care of children. Currently, Nevada fails to make the grade when it comes to the safety, education, health and economic well‐being of children. Nevada's current grade in safety, which covers child maltreatment, youth homelessness, juvenile violence, child deaths and injuries, and substance abuse, currently ranks as a C+. Meanwhile, Nevada's grade in school readiness is an F, in children's health is a D and in economic well‐being is a D+. “In addition to continuing to chart health, safety, economic and education data, the Children's Advocacy Alliance plans to begin collecting data on the mental health of Nevada's youth,” says Tara C. Raines, Ph.D., N.C.S.P., director of the Kids Count Initiative at the CAA. “Ultimately, we would like to create a resource guide for each county, and we are currently seeking additional funding to support these efforts.”