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Child Health and Human Development

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Friends of NICHD Coalition
Advocacy Activities on Children's Mental Health
Other Relevant Information

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Official Site of the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development

National Children's Study Adopts National Probability Sampling Strategy  (7/04)

NICHD Council Updated on the National Children’s Study  (2/04)

APA Comments on NICHD's Strategic Plan  (11/99)

Friends of NICHD Coalition

Friends of NICHD Coalition website

Coalition Member List (11/06)

Advocacy Activities on Children's Mental Health

APA participates in White House Conference on Children and Mental Disorders  (3/00)
        Read the Monitor article about the Conference
        Briefing paper on children and adolescents
        Letter to the First Lady regarding the Conference

Congressional Testimony on Children and Ritalin  (5/00)

Letter to Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Beverly Malone, Regarding Conference on Children's Mental Health (6/00)

Comments to Surgeon General's Office Regarding the National Conference on Children's Mental Health (5/00)

Testimony for The NIH Consensus Development Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD (11/98)

Other Relevant Information

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Article on Prescribing Psychotropic Medications to Preschoolers

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