Covid Related Youth Mental Health Crisis

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KARA Signature Video (4 minute)

This NY times article dives deep into the national emergency of child and adolescent mental health crisis triggered by isolation, uncertainty and grief during COVID. Leading medical groups point out that over 140,000 children have lost a parent in the pandemic.

The CDC reports between 24 and 31% of children between five and seventeen visited ER’s for mental health emergencies and that suicide attempts were up over 50% since 2019.

At the same time, more hospitals are ending care services and some states are sending children far away for mental health care.

Depression, Anxiety, loneliness and suicidal thinking drive sad and dangerous behaviors that can last a lifetime.

Access to meaningful mental health care for America’s children needs to grow.  The over reliance on psychotropic medications without access to meaningful services needs to stop.

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