Supporting child & adolescent psychiatrists across New England since 1962.

The New England Council of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry brings together clinicians, trainees, educators, and advocates to advance child and adolescent psychiatry through education, connection, and advocacy. The NECCAP is one of the oldest regional arms of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) with close to 600 members.

Formed in 1962, NECCAP has a mandate to foster and promote by all proper and legitimate agencies and means, study, research, clinical application of and education in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and child and adolescent development; to publish and distribute articles, periodicals, pamphlets and books relative to any of the foregoing purposes. To provide a scientific forum for child psychiatrists; to serve as a focus for recruitment and supporting mechanism for practitioners; and to develop a group sensitive to and knowledgeable about the emotional needs of children and hence equipped to serve as an advocate for children in local and governmental activities.

The objectives of NECCAP are to foster and promote the following:

• Study, conduct research in, and advance clinical application of and education in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and child and adolescent development

• Publish and distribute articles, periodicals, pamphlets and books relative to any of the foregoing purposes.

• Provide a scientific forum for child psychiatrists

• Provide continuing medical education (CME) to its membership

• Support the well-being of its membership

• Advocate for the mental health of children and adolescents both regionally and nationally.

• Represent the needs of child and adolescent psychiatrists throughout in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.