Youth Mental Health Outcomes and Access

Explore the correlation between youth mental health outcomes and access to mental health services across the United States.

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Outlier Classifications

Classification States
Positive (Best Access) VT
Negative (Worst Access) MS, PR, TN, WV

Methodology Updates

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Cross-Validation

HRSA data shows the number of mental health practitioners needed per 100,000 state population. For example, Alaska needs 5.52 practitioners, while Washington, D.C. requires 54.5.

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Companion documents

Need-vs-Access Series · 3 working papers · May 2026

Original research applying the Need-vs-Access Framework to U.S. mental-health access

Original research applying the reusable Need-vs-Access Framework (DB-native tool atlas.need_vs_access_framework_v1) to public-good access domains. Each study joins authoritative federal small-area-estimated need data to provider-supply registries, computes per-geography gap ratios, and identifies states or tracts where supply deviates from what the insurance landscape predicts. Eleven additional access domains are queued (poverty, ELL, jobs, postsecondary, library access, police per capita, maternal care, dental care, broadband, oncology, crisis response).