Today is National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day. In Indiana, community groups, agencies and schools are building awareness of the importance of positive mental, emotional, and behavioral health for a child’s healthy development. Josh Sprunger with the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Indiana says there are still barriers for children to access mental, emotional, and behavioral health care services and sometimes, families don't know where to turn for help. He says, “It's all about making a safety net for kids.” According to the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction, in 2011 over 100 thousand children were estimated to have a serious emotional disturbance.
