The REACH Institute is dedicated to improving the mental health of the 10 million American youth with emotional and behavioral challenges.
Led by national leaders in child psychiatry, REACH arms thousands of individuals and institutions with the best, evidence-based therapies to improve the mental health of children and adolescents. We train pediatricians, family practitioners, child psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, school personnel and parents and their advocates in the most effective therapies, from psychotherapy to pharmacology.
According to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, it takes 18 years on average for medical innovations to reach patients. Shortening the wait for science to reach its intended beneficiaries greatly benefits families, communities and society as a whole. REACH and its scientific partners believe that this time lag can be reduced to less than 3 years, giving more than 3 million young people a real chance for happier, healthier and more productive lives. Expanding the “reach” of today’s knowledge is what we do. The discovery of even more effective treatments is what we hope for. Please join us in making certain that children and adolescents are not left waiting too long.
REACH uses a four-step process to accelerate the time that it takes for state-of-art science to reach local communities: - Identify and validate the highest-quality scientific findings
- Adapt these new interventions to make them family- and child-friendly
- Quickly disseminate and implement these proven interventions, and
- Empower local communities to sustain this change process through ongoing access to REACH’s latest programs, training materials and technical assistance
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