AMHF was organized in 1924 and incorporated in New York State on December 31, 1954.^[1]

From 2012 to 2014, AMHF responded to a need, noted by Paul Gionfriddo,^[2] for the screening of several thousand youth in a county-wide catchment area. The organization collaborated with Astor Services for Children & Families to identify approximately fifteen at-risk individuals who would receive a palliative prevention treatment.^{[citation needed]}

In the summer of 2014, AMHF embarked on a research project with Pearson Assessment to measure older individuals within the serious to profound range of intellectual disabilities for behavioral changes. Such a test would be in the mode of the existing Wechsler, Vineland, and Bayley Scales and have wide-ranging applications.^{[citation needed]} As of 2024, AMHF awaits further funding to continue. The findings of the AMHF 2-year study with Astor Services for Children & Families were issued in April 2016.^{[citation needed]}

On April 10, 2016, in a letter published by the New York Times, Evander Lomke of AMHF rebutted the medical practice of "growth attenuation" among young people with serious disabilities.^{[citation needed]} In the same month, AMHF issued a monograph describing their two years of collaborative research with Astor Services for Children & Families regarding early signs of schizophrenia and other psychoses, and options for palliation or prevention. On March 27, 2017, Lomke placed an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on AMHF's behalf, addressing the psychological dimensions of coping with fear, anxiety and social stress, and terrorism.^{[citation needed]}

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• American Mental Health Foundation website