Colleen Cicchetti is executive director of the Center for Childhood Resilience, a clinical psychologist at Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. She also serves in leadership roles in numerous state advocacy groups, including clinical director of the Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition and appointed member to the Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership and the Illinois Whole Child Task Force. Cichetti is passionate about and committed to addressing health disparities and decreasing exposure to violence and trauma for children and families through innovative, healing-centered public health strategies, and to promoting equitable access to evidence-based mental health interventions through collaborative partnerships, training, and evaluation.
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Our children are in crisis. Globally, one in seven children, ages 10-19, has some kind of mental illness, notably depression, anxiety, or behavioral disorders. Horrifically, a...