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COVID-19: Children's Trips To ER For Mental Health Treatment Skyrocket COVID-19: Children's Trips To ER For Mental Health Treatment Skyrocket
Covid-19: Children's Trips To ER For Mental Health Treatment Skyrocket Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is enough to stress anyone out - and the mental strain is increasingly landing children in the hospital. The number of children’s visits to hospital emergency rooms for mental health treatment has increased by 24-31 percent since the start of the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is all happening at a time when traditional avenues for child mental health are difficult or unavailable for access, such as school resources, in-person mental health visits, and non-emergency treatment. There are ways paren…

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by Kristin Palpini
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Walter Panas Students Earn 'What's Great In Our State' Recognition Walter Panas Students Earn 'What's Great In Our State' Recognition
Walter Panas Students Earn 'What's Great In Our State' Recognition Congratulations to the Walter Panas High School Warr;ors on being honored by the New York State Office of Mental Health in Albany at the "What's Great in Our State" forum.  The Panas high school altered the spelling of "Warriors'' because they embody advocacy and stand up for what they believe in and want to help “Stomp out the stigma of mental illness." The group uses the semicolon to support the “Semi Colon” project which was created to help survivors of suicide and to support suicide awareness. According to the organizers, the program was selected for "successful…

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by Jon Craig