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Tackling the Youth Mental Health Crisis
Embark Behavioral Health is a leading network of outpatient centers and residential programs offering premier mental health treatment for preteens, teens, and young adults. Our nationwide programs are part of a robust continuum of care that provides a range of services built from over 25 years of specialization in serving youths. Embark’s big hairy audacious goal is to lead the way in driving teen and young adult anxiety, depression, and suicide from the all-time highs of today to all-time lows by 2028.
Adolescence is a time of transitions, opportunities, and exponential growth. From ages 10-25, we experience physical and environmental changes, and at times, the world responds in a way for which we’re not ready. Some of us struggle to deal with those changes and the corresponding challenges. These difficulties can lead to family distress, anxiety, depression, and poor coping strategies.
Mental Health and Adolescence: A Closer Look
Mental illness often begins during adolescence, and for children and adolescents, depression and anxiety have been estimated at 25% and 20%, respectively1,2. Also of note:
• The COVID-19 pandemic continues to exacerbate mental health issues like anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide. From 2019 to 2020, adolescent psychiatric emergency department visits increased by 31%3.
• In October 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics declared a national state of emergency in children’s mental health4.
The numbers are of significant concern.
The need for high-quality, outcomes-driven treatment has never been greater. This is why Embark exists.
Creating and Measuring Lasting Change
At Embark, our goal is to create lasting change, so we use outcomes surveys,
also called outcomes measures, to better understand a client’s level of distress and functioning throughout the treatment process and beyond. We use outcomes to personalize treatment for each client and family so we can best address their needs. Information obtained throughout their time with Embark informs how we care for clients moving forward.
Embark is one of the few behavioral health companies to collect outcomes data for up to two years after treatment, informing clinicians and families of the lasting impact of our services.
This report provides a detailed description of how and why we use outcomes, a summary of our results, and our future research directions.
Measuring Lasting Change: The Embark Behavioral Health Annual Outcomes Report 5