This document presents witnesses' testimonies and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine children's mental health issues, including the prevalence of mental illness among children, barriers to effective treatment, and responses that are effective in helping children and families. Witnesses providing testimony include: (1) Glenda Fine, director of the Parents Involved Network Project and mother of an adolescent son with serious emotional problems; (2) Jean Gaunt, foster parent and mother of an adopted son with emotional problems; (3) Leonard Saxe, principal author of the Office of Technology Assessment Report on Children's Mental Health; (4) Jane Knitzer, director of the Division of Research, Development and Policy, Bank Street College of Education; (5) Robert Friedman, director of the Research and Training Center for Improved Services for Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Children at the Florida Mental Health Institute; (6) Stuart McCullough, director of the Contra Costa County Department of Mental Health, California; (7) Marilyn Mennis, Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, Pennsylvania; (8) Bertrand L'Homme, executive director of City Lights community-based day treatment program for adolescents, Washington, D.C.; (9) Thomas Davis, Alexandria Mental Health Center, Louisiana; (10) Randall Feltman, Children's Services Demonstration Project, Ventura County Mental Health Services, California and (11) Judith Shanley, assistant commissioner of the Eric County Department of Mental Health, Buffalo, New York. Materials submitted for the record are included. (NB)