Bangladesh Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health (BACAMH) is the national organization for professionals working in the area of child & adolescent mental health.

Our Mission

The Mission of the Association is the promotion of mentally healthy children, adolescents, and families though training, services, research, advocacy, prevention, peer support, and collaboration.

Our Objectives
The Objectives of the Association are to:

• promote the study, treatment, care and prevention of mental disorders and deficiencies of children and adolescents, and their families
• adopt the concept of continuing education as a means of maintaining competence in child and adolescent mental health
• promote national and international collaboration among professionals in the fields related to child and adolescent mental health
• focus on the practice and research in child and adolescent mental health and to make the knowledge available to the professionals and public through various scientific activities
• facilitation, advocacy and integration of child and adolescent mental health services
• To promote positive mental health in children and adolescents with concern for laying a foundation for better adulthood and future society
• To take up charitable work and all such matters that are incidental and conducive to the attainment of above objectives

Our Key Activities

• Annual Conference in a variety of formats include Institutes, Seminars, Workshops, lectures, Oral presentations, Posters presentation of new studies, interactive special interest study featuring experts on different child and adolescent psychiatric disorders.

• Series of Continuous Professional Development Programmes 

• Seminar, Workshops, Master Class Lectures and other scientific programmes on regular basis

• Training Courses on need based modules for the people who work with children and adolescents

• Providing, facilitating and advocacy for establishing and developing Child and Adolescent Mental health Services

• Collaborative activities and mutual exchange program at local, regional and international level

• Awards to honour a range of activities, from original research to outstanding papers to innovative community programmes

• Fellowship programmes to encourage outstanding medical students to pursue carrier in child and adolescent psychiatry and allied disciplines

• Child and adolescent mental health education and awareness activities

• Publishing” Bangladesh Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health”, BACAMH E-News bulletin, a wide variety of books, monographs, brochure, fact sheets, videos, and resource kits