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Congressional Testimony and Events


Key Issues

Public Interest Government Relations provides recommendations to Congress on child abuse legislation

APA letter to House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller in support of H.R. 5876, Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act

APA Member Dale Kunkel, Ph.D., Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: The Effects of Television Violence on Children

APA Testimony, Presented by Jeff McIntyre, Senior Legislative and Federal Affairs Officer, before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: The Impact of Media Violence on Children

Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities

Letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor regarding their draft bill for the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind

APA Task Force on Psychology's Agenda for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Talking Points

Learn more about policy affecting children' media


Children's Mental Health

Children’s Mental Health Congressional Briefing

Information on the 'Keeping Families Together Act' (S. 1704 / H.R. 3243)

Information About Children with ADHD and Other Behavioral Disorders


Fact Sheets & Brochures

Healthy Transition Act of 2008

Transition Youth with Serious Mental Illness

APA Task Force on Psychologys Agenda for Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Child care

Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program

Bullying

Mental Health in Schools Act

Promoting Awarenss of Children's Mental Health Issues

State Children's Health Insurance Program

Child Health Care Relief Act

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Resiliency Act

Prevention that Works for Children and Youth

Childhood Cancer

End Institutional Abuse Against Children


Related Links

Information on Children and Media

Friends of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Coalition

Children, Youth and Families Office (from the APA Public Interest Directorate)

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