The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report titled Blueprint for a National Prevention Infrastructure for Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders, published on June 25, 2025.[3] Mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders, including mental illness and substance use disorders, affect all populations, communities, and neighborhoods in the US.[1][3] Current infrastructure focuses on responding to MEB crises through treatment and recovery rather than preventing them through evidence-based policies and programs.[1][3][6] Existing preventive services are underfunded and fragmented.[1][3] The report focuses on building and maintaining a comprehensive preventive infrastructure for MEB failures as a whole.[1][3] The committees, including Margaret Kuklinski, PhD, worked for 18 months on conclusions and recommendations aimed at closing research gaps, supporting the MEB disorder prevention workforce, ensuring sufficient data to support prevention and reporting, establishing clear governance, obtaining sustainable funding, and advancing evidence-based policies.[1][3] The report recommends a coordinated, government-led national strategy involving key federal agencies to align resources and promote MEB health in young people, as well as develop a way to track the incidence of MEB disorders and associated risk factors in the US.[4]