As our nation’s schools struggle with the decision to go back to school or have students learn at home virtually during this time of Covid 19, the country’s foster care system is facing another challenge in this area, as well.
At 21, former foster youth don’t have bedrooms waiting for them at their parents’ homes when they are in a pinch, or lengthy education and job histories to rely upon. They are often, quite literally, alone in the world as they emerge from being raised by a government system.
Young people have suffered more with mental health issues over the last few months than any other age group, according to a far-reaching study that has scrutinised the effects of the pandemic on the under-25s.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that a pandemic that has killed over 165,000 Americans, isolated tens of millions more, and left over 50 million unemployed would also result in a sweeping mental-health crisis. Such a prospect was reaffirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, when the agency released a new survey showing that almost 41 percent of respondents are grappling with mental-health challenges related to the pandemic and its economic and social effects.
A new study suggests Canadians, especially women, will face a potentially explosive increase in mental illness for years after the COVID-19 pandemic is finally over.
A state Senate bill that seeks to get more mental health services to those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic is now headed to the Assembly for consideration. Current California law states that mental health conditions should be handled just like other illnesses by insurance companies.
Chris Cornell’s daughter, Lily Cornell Silver, will launch a new IGTV series, Mind Wide Open, Monday, July 20th, on what would’ve been her father’s 56th birthday.
More staff are badly needed as a ‘tsunami’ of referrals looms in the UK – but myths that the sector is dangerous to work in puts many off.
The head of a California hospital’s trauma team says his area has seen more death from lockdown suicides than from the pandemic itself.
Let’s face it: there are a lot of aspects of mental illness that can be traumatic, but mental health misdiagnosis can also be traumatic. What happens when we don’t even have the mental illness we think we have?
