Teenmentalhealth.org Wins Web Health Award

Teenmentalhealth.org is now an award-winning website! The site, which focuses on sharing knowledge about youth mental health and mental illness, won silver at the 2008 Web Health Awards. “Teenmentalhealth.org is dedicated to providing information on youth mental health that is based on the best available scientific evidence, and this award recognizes our commitment to excellence,” say Dr. Stan Kutcher, Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health. The Web Health Awards recognizes the best Web-based health-related content for consumers and professionals. The program is held twice a year — spring/summer and fall/winter — with the goal of providing a "seal of quality" for electronic health information. “I was thrilled to collaborate with Dr. Kutcher and his team,” says Jennifer Ayotte of Impact Communications. “They had the vision to take a complex subject like teen mental health and present it in a state-of-the-art website that uses social media to build global community of support.” Some of the website’s key mental health resources include: a guide to understanding teen depression, a guide to understanding evidence-based medicine, a booklet for siblings with a mental illness, various multimedia presentations, and free clinical tools for health professionals.