Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People:
Progress and Possibilities
After three years,
the National Academy of Sciences - Institute of Medicine (NAS-IOM) report on Prevention is finally available. The title
of the report is “Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People.” It can be
found at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12480#toc on line where you can down load the Executive Summary and read the report on line. You can also
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Click Here: Check out "Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities"
This report is extremely important
for the health and wellness of underserved youth populations and populations at risk in foster care, detention centers, under
funded urban and rural schools, and more.
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While the search engine at the website has a few glitches (due to the newness of the report - the
one you will be able to read is a rough draft), if you do a few searches on African-American, HIV, Violence, Depression, substance
abuse, etc. you will find the best science available on how to prevent these problems. It was not that long ago that
people thought that polio was just a fact and it would always be with us, but now, thanks to prevention, it is gone.
This NAS-IOM report holds prevention answers that if implemented could relieve our Nation of many health care problems and
end the problem African-Americans have with health disparities.
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Because
President Lincoln started it, and he understands the value of science, President Obama has respect for the NAS, and I suspect
if the people support the implementation of this report, he will be able to use it effectively to move his health care reform
agenda.
NAS-IOM is having a "public" release of the report on March 25, 2009 in D.C. from 1-5PM at the National Academy
of Sciences, 2101 C Street, NW, Washington D. C.
The discussion will also include presentations by other experts in the prevention field. You may register online at
http://www.bocyf.org/prevention_of_mental_health_disorders.html. The event will also be webcast; log-in instructions will be available the morning of March 25 in the
events section of the National Academies’ webpage at www.nas.edu. So, please join us
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