The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups is an evidence-based, national mental health and suicide risk screening program. The program helps communities in the United States establish early identification programs. Through these programs, families are offered the opportunity for their teens to participate in a screening for mental health problems, such as depression and other suicide risk factors.

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  • The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups is an evidence-based, national mental health and suicide risk screening program. The program helps communities in the United States establish early identification programs. Through these programs, families are offered the opportunity for their teens to participate in a screening for mental health problems, such as depression and other suicide risk factors. TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups began its first pilots in 1999, training sites in Indiana, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma. The national initiative to offer voluntary screening for depression and suicide risk to every American teenager was launched in 2003 by leaders in adolescent health and education. As of 2008, TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups has over 500 active screening sites in 43 states in the U.S. , plus 3 additional countries. Screening is voluntary and offered through schools, clinics, doctors' offices, juvenile justice facilities, and other youth-serving organizations and settings. Early mental health screening has been endorsed by former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher and the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups is included as an evidence-based program in the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)'s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) as a scientifically tested and reviewed intervention. Because of stigma and other factors, some individuals and organizations oppose mental health screening.
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  • The TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups is an evidence-based, national mental health and suicide risk screening program. The program helps communities in the United States establish early identification programs. Through these programs, families are offered the opportunity for their teens to participate in a screening for mental health problems, such as depression and other suicide risk factors.
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  • TeenScreen
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