How Florida is teaching kids resilience to tackle the youth mental health crisis

How Florida is teaching kids resilience to tackle the youth mental health crisis

Young people are going through a mental health crisis as depression and suicides rise, and sadly, our healthcare system is woefully inadequate to help them. We regularly see headlines of students committing suicide after being bullied, and murderous school shooters plagued by mental illness, causing preventable injuries and deaths. But not everyone sits idly by,

How our schools can tackle California’s youth mental health crisis – now

Courtesy: Aspire Public Schools Courtesy: Aspire Public Schools Cora Palma April 13, 2023 Those of us who work in schools don’t need statistics to tell us that our children are in crisis; research supports our lived experience. Since 2017, rates of anxiety and depression among Californian children have soared 70%, and one-third of Californian teenagers