Communities, organizations, agencies and individuals nationwide will be joining with the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) on May 3 to promote positive youth development, resilience, recovery, and the transformation of mental health services delivery for children and youth with serious mental health needs and their families.

Awareness Day raises awareness of effective programs for children’s mental health needs; demonstrates how children’s mental health initiatives promote positive youth development, recovery, and resilience; and shows how children with mental health needs interact with their communities.

The theme for this year’s national event is Thriving in the Community, with a special emphasis on how high school youth who receive the services they need are more likely to have positive outcomes, such as better grades, and less likely to have negative outcomes, such as involvement with the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

For more information, visit www.tapartnership.org or www.samhsa.gov.