The Columbia University TeenScreen Program is a voluntary adolescent mental health and suicide prevention screening initiative, which exists in 44 states, Guam, South Korea, and Panama. The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health recognized the TeenScreen Program as a model program in its July 2003 final report. In addition, the national Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) listed the TeenScreen Program as a Promising Program on its list of Evidence-Based Practices in Suicide Prevention Programs. TeenScreen offers consultation, the screening instruments, and training, free of charge to qualifying communities.

The ultimate goal of the TeenScreen Program is to ensure that all parents are offered the opportunity for their teens to receive a voluntary mental health check-up. Our primary objective is to help communities establish permanent early identification programs through which youth are offered screening for mental disorders and suicide risk factors.

1775 Broadway, Suite 715
New York, NY 10019

Telephone: 866-833-6727

FAX: 646-443-8190

Email: carroc@childpsych.columbia.edu

Web: http://www.teenscreen.org