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Can telehealth solve America’s mental health crisis in schools?
From Texas Public Radio
The kids are not alright. A CDC analysis released earlier this year found that in 2021— the second year of the pandemic — more than 37 percent of high school students reported experiencing poor mental health, and 44 percent reported they felt persistently sad or hopeless throughout the year.
Youth mental health services expand in San Antonio and statewide
From Texas Public Radio
In a unanimous decision earlier this month, the San Antonio City Council voted to create a framework to increase mental health care access across the city. The city will utilize $23 million from the American Rescue Plan Act. How will the funds be disbursed? What age groups will the city focus its efforts on?
“It’s destroying me”: Storm after storm, climate change increases strain on Texans’ mental health
From The Texas Tribune
The first thing Dana Jones, 61, tells you to do when you enter her gray-blue house in Melrose Park is walk along the off-white tile, up and down, through her dining room, while she watches carefully for your reaction. “Do you feel it?” she asks.
There’s Free Mental Health Help For Crime Victims, But Providers Say Bureaucracy Gets In The Way
From SCPR/KPCC
About three years ago, a Southern California resident we’ll call Jane —we’re not using her real name because of a pending trial and security concerns— and her husband found out their child had been assaulted.
Youth access to mental health care improved under Jake’s Law, but persistent barriers hamper its reach
From the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR)
In March 2020, Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law a sweeping set of measures designed to help curb rising rates of suicide and expand access to mental health treatment for Arizona residents with and without insurance.