Building Better Responses to Youth Mental Health and Addiction
This brief covers several developing challenges facing young people, including (1)
health and substance use, (2) social media; and (3) gaming and gambling. To build
a responsive system that can address these types of emerging challenges facing
young people, this brief supports policymakers to:
- Build a youth mental health and addiction observatory to identify threats;
- Create translational machinery to respond to threats identified adaptively; and
- Develop youth-engaged learning systems to evaluate intervention strategies.
