Jessica McClure

ABSTRACT Background Pediatric mental and behavioral health (MBH) needs are exceeding existing resources. Efforts to address the MBH crisis have primarily focused on increasing the number of youth served, with few programs aggregating clinical outcomes (e.g. rates of functional improvement, treatment lengths, patterns of acute care utilization) across systems of care at the population level.

Abstract Damage to articular cartilage, tendons, ligaments and entheses as a result of trauma, degeneration or inflammation in rheumatic diseases is prevalent. Regenerative medicine offers promising strategies for repairing damaged tissues, with the aim of restoring both their structure and function.

The statistics about childhood mental health seem stubbornly unwilling to change. By age 14, about 50% of all chronic mental illness has already begun, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Yet the average delay remains 11 years between the onset of mental illness symptoms and when professional treatment finally begins. Since 2007, suicide rates among Americans ages 10 to 24 have soared 62%, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.