Early Response and Support for Children’s Mental Health

This toolkit aims to provide parents, caregivers, and educators with ways they can take proactive steps in offering children protection and/or timely intervention from stress, maltreatment, neglect, trauma, or harm.

  • A report by the World Health Organization published in October 2020 states that 1 in 5 children and adolescents has a mental disorder.
  • Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people as young as 15 years old.