National Childrens Mental Health Awareness Day

5/3/2011

May 3, 2011 is National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day.
Throughout the country, organizations, groups and individuals are spreading awareness about the importance of children's mental health.
Caring for Every Child's Mental Health

Talk Therapy TV is participating by distributing special edition grocery receipt Quick Facts providing facts about children''s mental health.

The national event in Washington, DC, will open with an art exhibit sponsored by the American Art Therapy Association at the prestigious Shakespeare Theatre-Harman Center for the Arts and continue with a tribute to youth who dealt with trauma in their childhood and who built on their resilience. A joint award from the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts will be presented to a celebrity who experienced trauma, who demonstrated resilience, and who used his or her fame as a platform to educate others about trauma and resilience.
Watch the live webcast of this event here.

Learn more about Children's Mental Health Awareness Day

Childhood Trauma and PTSD

When exposed to a traumatic event, children as young as 18 months can have serious emotional and behavioral problems later in childhood and in adulthood. More than 35 percent of children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems.

With help from families, providers, and the community, young children can demonstrate resilience when dealing with trauma. Visit http://1.usa.gov/eURFX5 to learn more.

Among even very young children, ages 18 to 36 months, exposure to potentially traumatic events is associated with a range of socio-emotional and behavioral problems that may compromise healthy development and place them at risk for persistent serious psychological problems later in childhood and in adulthood.1 More than 35 percent of children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop a serious mental health problem.2

Research has shown that caregivers can buffer the impact of trauma and promote better outcomes for children even under stressful times when the following Strengthening Families Protective Factors3 are present:

Parental resilience
Social connections
Knowledge of parenting and child development
Concrete support in times of need
Social and emotional competence of children

9 Comments

Angela Mitchell

12/29/2011 06:58:43 am

To whom it may concern, I am asking for help for my son. My son has PTSD he is 5 . His father is was very abusive to his other son and I. I left him in 2008 . to make a very long story short , I am tired my son has had to have reconstructive surgery on his penis because his step brother yanked on it. He was also strangled by his step brother hit numnerous times by him and his father. I have been fighting with the court system for years and not getting any help. My son is my life .Can anyone please help me??

LAURA

1/24/2012 04:54:39 am

Dear, Angela i to am a single mom ofr a 5 yer old diagnosed with ptsd and I know hoe much you're struggling but look for a company called the home for little wonderers safe at home they have a website its www.thehome.org

Emily

2/28/2012 06:44:23 am

At a loss of what to do 2.5 years ago my 3 children watched their little sister get hit by a car and killed the same weekend that we were moving out of our home and out outta state because their father was leaving us. My son now 9 years old has PTSD and I feel as if I cannot teach him the things a parent needs to a child so they can because a happy succesful adult because everytime he is asked/told to do something he does not like he has a complete melt down including tears, voilence and sucidal thouhgts.

Kelsey Johanson

8/25/2012 02:35:41 pm

I was abused by my brother when I was 8. He is 3 years older than I am. My mother walked in on him and I in his bed. My parents both blamed me for what happened. I had been trying to get help since then. I was denied every attempt. I moved out at 19 and have been working with a few different counselors to resolve my PTSD. I am still working through it. But I wanted to comend every parent that goes to great lengths to help thier child work through their trauma. My life is proof of the encredible damage neglect can cause. And for those that did not have the oportunity to help early, I found a book that has helped me. To Soften the Blow by Lynnie Vessels. Again, Thank you for loving your children and for helping them while they are still young and can have ample time to recover and grow beyond their trauma.

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