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.
The Mental Health America (MHA) Screening Program, which provides voluntary, free, anonymous mental health screens across ten conditions, has seen unprecedented numbers in 2020, with more than 800,000 screens since the start of the pandemic.
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.
Using our revolutionary Success Focused Artificial Intelligence (SF-AI), P-CIS provides interpretable results designed to help care workers use their own expertise and knowledge, supplemented by their history of success, to make the best and most appropriate decisions for care.
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.
As a result of the Covid-19 emergency, there is a consensus that we are likely to see an increase in mental health problems, and possibly in the suicide rate. There is some evidence that we have already seen an increase in the prevalence of depression, anxiety and lower wellbeing since lockdown.
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.
A recently published study out of China found that children confined at home by the coronavirus lockdown had elevated rates of depression and anxiety, raising concerns about the risk for American kids as the pandemic sweeps the nation.
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