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Tips For Easing Back to School Anxiety
As the upcoming school year approaches, it’s essential to address and manage back-to-school anxiety effectively. -
How Parents Can Support their College Students’ Mental Health
Parents and caregivers can play a critical role in noticing that their college student may be struggling. -
To Improve Student Mental Health, We Need More Than Crisis Response
Students say that what’s currently being offered at school to address mental health is not enough. -
Reimagining Mental Health in Schools
School staff members have a responsibility to recognize and act on warning signs of mental health crises. -
Supporting Adolescent Mental Health During a Pandemic and Back to School
Nearly all adolescents have been affected by the pandemic, but certain groups are at a higher risk for mental health conditions. -
When You Have an Anxiety Disorder, Courage Is Subjective
"Parenting an anxious child is a gift. It's also exhausting." -
The Availability of Peer Support and Disparities in Outpatient Mental Health Service Use Among Minority Youth with Serious Mental Illness
Found that having a peer specialist on staff was associated with increases in outpatient service use in both counties, and with reduced disparities in service use among Black and Latinx youth in Los Angeles County. The availability of a peer specialist with racial/ethnic concordance was also associated with greater outpatient service use among Latinx youth in both counties. These results suggest that peer support services are a promising approach to reducing the documented low rate of continued engagement in mental health services among youth -
Justice-Involved Youth and Trauma-Informed Interventions
Professionals working in the juvenile justice system must consider the impact of trauma on justice-involved youth when creating interventions and policies. Most youths involved with the justice system have a history of childhood adversity. Juvenile justice service systems should work to implement trauma-informed interventions that address the needs of youth with mental health and trauma related disorders. The adoption of a trauma-informed approach throughout the juvenile justice system and the implementation of interventions for juvenile offenders with a history of trauma exposure has enormous potential benefits for justice-involved youth, the staff who work with them, their families, and the community at large. -
Mental Health and Foster Care
Up to 80 percent of children in foster care have significant mental health issues, compared to approximately 18-22 percent of the general population -
Beyond Suspensions: Examining School Discipline Policies and Connections to the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Students of Color with Disabilities
For this report, the Commission investigated school discipline practices and policies impacting students of color with disabilities and the possible connections to the school-to-prison pipeline, examined rates of exclusionary discipline, researched whether and under what circumstances school discipline policies unfairly and/or unlawfully target students of color with disabilities, and analyzed the federal government’s responses and actions on the topic