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Clinical Services (Children's Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships):
Prevention Initiatives
The Swensrud Depression Prevention Initiative and Family Connections works with the CHNP at Children's Hospital Boston to ensure that health care providers are trained to recognize and help prevent mental illness in children and their parents.

Family Connections

Family Connections aims to strengthen the capacity of Head Start staff and programs to respond to the needs of children and families dealing with parental depression.

Learn more about Family Connections

Director:
Email Mary Watson Avery, MS
Phone: 617-355-1896
Fax: 617-730-0271

The Swensrud Depression Prevention Initiative (SDPI)

SDPI offers professional development and on-site consultation services directed at the prevention and early identification of depression and other mental health problems in children and adolescents. Through the use of curriculum tools and training conferences, the SDPI helps schools build wellness into their core curriculum.

Learn more about the Swensrud Depression Prevention Initiative

Director:
Email Nadja Reilly, PhD
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Image Swensrud Depression Prevention Initiative:
Self-defense for the soul

Fifteen-year-old Kareem was in trouble. A well-mannered honor student, he'd become moody and inattentive, with no social life and plummeting grades...

Image The Depression Experience Journal is a collection of stories, pictures and personal experiences from families about what it's like to deal with depression.
Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
Read an excerpt from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Surgeon General on depression and suicide.
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