We exist to improve child and adolescent development and mental health.
AACAMH strengthens the systems that serve young people — monitoring policy, building solutions for identified gaps, and connecting the professionals who carry the work.
Who we are
The American Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (AACAMH) is a national nonprofit founded in 2026 by Dr. Rebecca L. Hubbard. We serve the professionals and systems that surround children, adolescents, and their families — supporting the people who do the work and strengthening the systems they work within.
We envision communities who wrap around children and adolescents and their families as a natural societal and cultural norm.
What we do
Monitor policy
Policy shapes a child’s world long before a counselor can.
Laws and budgets decide what is possible for children and adolescents: which services exist, who can access them, and whether the professionals providing them can stay in the work. AACAMH tracks youth mental health legislation at the federal level and across the states, translating what is moving into plain language for the people it affects.
Build solutions
Where we find a gap, we build what belongs there.
Unmet needs in children’s mental health follow a pattern: everyone sees the gap, no one owns it. AACAMH exists to own it. We identify the gap, design a solution with the people closest to it, secure the funding, build, and install each solution in a sustainable home.
Strengthen the network
Children are served best when the systems around them work as one.
Around every family stands a web of systems: schools, clinics, courts, child welfare, community programs. Each works hard; too few work together. AACAMH strengthens that network through cross-sector collaboration, peer-to-peer mentorship among professionals, and enhanced education for those who serve youth and families.
Leadership
Dr. Rebecca L. Hubbard, PhD, LPC, CFLE — Founder and Board President
Dr. Rebecca L. Hubbard is a clinician, researcher, educator, and systems-level mental health leader with more than thirty years of experience across clinical practice, academic research, statewide program development, and municipal policy. She co-created Oklahoma’s statewide pediatric mental health access program (OKCAPMAP, now SPARK), giving primary care providers real-time consultative access to child psychiatrists and mental health professionals, and served as the City of Tulsa’s first Chief Mental Health Officer. A Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Family Life Educator, she holds a PhD in Human Sciences with a focus in Human Development and Family Science. She founded AACAMH to bring that same discipline — name the need, build the solution, make it last — to the national level.
“Around every child stands a family, and around every family stands a web of systems. Our work is to make that web strong.”
A recognized public charity
The American Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, effective March 17, 2026. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
EIN: 41-4939044
AACAMH is establishing its donation processing. To make a contribution now, contact us at rebecca.hubbard@aacamh.org and we will respond directly.
Get involved
AACAMH is building a national network of clinicians, therapists, case managers, peer support specialists, educators, and the professionals who work alongside them. Membership, mentorship, and education programs are in development. Share your name and role, and we will keep you informed as each opens.