Of these 7.5 million children, 70 to 80 percent are not getting appropriate mental health services, the office says.

Many times, important mental health services were no longer even available to clients.

So in the long run mental health services are cost effective.

Women use mental health services at a greater rate than men.

But society, she said, will have to prepare its schools and mental health services to face those children's special needs.

She said the state needed to provide more mental health services for young people who have left foster care.

Get him in touch with a local mental health service.

However, very few of the 1,000 individuals in this study received support from mental health services.

Part of the problem, he said, is that "the federal government has never put up any real money for children's mental health services."

The report calls for increasing the mental health services available to young children.