The Child Mind Institute envisions a world where no child or adolescent struggles with a mental health or learning disorder; where evidence-based mental health care is available to all children; where the diagnosis and treatment of mental health and learning disorders are more objective and effective due to better biological tests; and where all parents, caregivers and child-serving professionals have access to the resources, information and support they need to promote children's healthy emotional and behavioral development, and know how to identify problems and intervene early, when treatment is proven most effective, thereby helping all children reach their full potential.

At the Child Mind Institute, we focus our efforts on children because childhood is when mental health and learning disorders first appear – 75% before age 24. We have three main strategies for achieving our mission and vision: 1) Delivering Care: We provide the highest quality evidence-based care, tailored to the unique needs of each child. Child Mind Institute clinicians are seeing children more frequently, treating them more efficiently, and using highly specialized behavioral approaches that are proven effective in reducing symptoms and improving the quality of life for children struggling with mental health and learning disorders. By providing services in schools in underserved communities with limited access to evidence-based mental health care, we can reach even more vulnerable children who would otherwise struggle to receive the care that they need. 2) Accelerating Discovery: We are advancing the science of the developing brain by using innovative technologies and a big data/open science paradigm to accelerate discovery. By compiling the largest data resource on the developing brain anywhere, and making this data available to multi-disciplinary scientists all over the world, we are expediting discoveries of the biological markers of mental illness. Together with our innovative technologies, these breakthroughs will lead to the development of objective measures to diagnose, track, and treat child mental health and learning disorders. 3) Empowering Change: We are reducing the stigma and misinformation that cause so many children to miss out on life-changing treatment through our public education programs. Our website, childmind. org, serves as a comprehensive online resource where parents and professionals can find scientifically sound information on child and adolescent mental health. The site houses a Symptom Checker, A-to-Z Disorder Guide, Trauma Guides translated into 10 languages, and articles and videos on hot-topic parenting issues (many of which are available in Spanish). Additionally, our annual month-long Speak Up for Kids awareness campaign in May engages stakeholders through a variety of events and digital campaigns to reduce the stigma associated with mental health, going hand in hand with the efforts of the Adam Katz Memorial Conversation, On the Shoulders of Giants Symposium, and Project UROK, which engage mental health professionals, researchers, celebrities, adolescents and families in a larger conversation about mental health.

Founded in 2009, the Child Mind Institute has grown tremendously in its short history, touching the lives of millions of children, youth and families in New York City, across the nation and around the world. Our high-quality, innovative services founded on evidence-based practices, our ambitious, competent leadership and dedicated teams, and ongoing philanthropic support have enabled the Child Mind Institute to grow rapidly to meet the demands of families in New York City and across the country, while also pushing innovation in the field of child mental health research and public education. As a result of our sound, strategic planning and organizational successes to date, we expect to continue serving thousands of children, parents and professionals directly each year, while also laying the foundation in research and treatment innovation to benefit millions of children in the years to come.

The Child Mind Institute carefully evaluates all our clinical programs and services by tracking data including the number of children and families served or engaged, where they are from, amount of financial aid provided, mental health outcomes (e. g. symptom reduction based on nationally normed clinical measures), and patient satisfaction. We evaluate our research efforts by tracking the number of participants and satisfaction with the Healthy Brain Network initiative, the amount and quality of data collected and released, the number and location of sites from around the world that are using our data, and the number of publications and types of breakthroughs made citing our data. Our public education efforts are evaluated by tracking the number of users and unique visits to our website and Speak Up for Kids microsites, number of page views, number of participants and partners engaged in public education events and on social media, and the number of media impressions garnered, as well as the level of engagement of users on each of these measures.

1) Access to Care: As a testament to our exceptional clinical services, our clinicians have seen more than 7,400 patients from 46 states and 38 nations from 2010 to 2017. Our clinicians have worked in more than 100 schools and organizations throughout New York City and Newark, New Jersey providing mental health workshops, training and classroom coaching to thousands of teachers, parents, and other professionals, imparting skills to promote good mental health and positive behavior. We have also provided workshops and treatment to over 6,100 children in the community as of December 2017, and indirectly benefited several thousand additional students by educating and training teachers and parents. We have disseminated vitally-needed resources to all 1800+ NYC DOE schools. Despite these accomplishments, there are still many more children in New York City and beyond who are struggling with mental health and learning disorders and desperately need high-quality evidence-based mental health support. 2) Accelerating Discovery: Our open science/big data approach to research has captured global attention with thousands of researchers in more than 2,600 cities worldwide accessing our shared data sets, leading to over 1,200 published articles. Launched in 2015, the Healthy Brain Network is proving to be an extraordinary success. With more than 1,500 children enrolled or participating, nearly 1,000 of whom have completed the study, and 360 children on the waitlist (unheard of in research) as of December 2017, the initiative is gaining the attention and praise of federal agencies and the international research community. Our first two sets of data from 881 HBN participants was released for scientific analysis in June and October 2017. When complete, HBN will offer the largest, most comprehensive data resource for childhood mental health disorders anywhere, leading to transformative change in the way clinicians test, diagnose and treat mental health and learning disorders. 3) Empowering Change: Since the launch of childmind. org six years ago, we have received 17. 9 million visits from people seeking dependable, up-to-date information on child mental health and learning disorders. Speak Up for Kids campaign events typically attract hundreds of attendees, while engaging millions more families and professionals through social media and online streaming events. Overall, in 2017, Speak Up for Kids generated 3. 5 billion media impressions. Our public education efforts will continue to reach out to families, child-serving professionals, and policymakers with the vital information needed to eliminate the stigma associated with child mental health and learning disorders, and to advocate for early intervention and care.