Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $4.7 billion effort to increase access to mental health and substance use support services for young people in California. The effort looks to address the lack of mental health care that was further exposed by the pandemic.
“Even before the pandemic, we were seeing increased rates of anxiety and depression in kids,” Maxwell said. “Some of those reasons that have been thought through are different sorts of stressors kids experience these days than they did in the past – things like social media, different sorts of school pressure, athletics or pressures at home.”
The kids' mental health plan also calls for doubling the number of school counselors, with a state-funded incentive of helping to pay for their education. “The last two years, there's been a stacking of stress, the likes of which none of us could have conceived of and none of us hope for in the future,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said. “And that stacking of stress comes from years and years where we’ve neglected your mental health, neglected investing.”
Nationally, kids are reporting symptoms of depression and anxiety at record rates and are considering or attempting suicide at historic levels.
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