Campaign for Healthy Minds, Healthy Kids clips week of 6/19/20
June 19, 2020
The Campaign for Healthy Minds Healthy Kids continues to work with PR firm BerlinRose to increase media attention on kids behavioral health issues. They also distribute a weekly compendium of news articles/spots, etc. that appeared in various media outlets around NYS and the country on this important topic:
Children’s Behavioral Health and COVID-19
Almost 3 in 10 parents say social distancing is harming child’s mental health: poll
Rebecca Klar, The Hill, 6/16/20
Facing a broken mental health system, many U.S. teens fall off a dangerous ‘cliff’ in their care
Megan Thielking, Stat News, 6/17/20
How Remote Learning Upended NYC Students With Disabilities and Their Families
Alex Zimmerman, Lauren Costantino, Rebekah Ward, Veronica Penney, and Yoav Gonen, Chalkbeat and The City, 6/17/20
U.S. Parents Say COVID-19 Harming Child’s Mental Health
Valerie J. Calderon, Gallup, 6/19/20
Opinion: The World Is Watching: Can We Finally Address Our Nation’s Youth Mental Health Crisis?
Reed Connell and Claudia Page, The Chronicle of Social Change, 6/19/20
*Reed Connell is the director for external affairs for The California Children’s Trust and Claudia Page is a healthcare consultant in California.
Children’s Behavioral Health and Race
Inside the fight to “defund” the NYPD
Jen Kirby, Vox, 6/19/20
Juneteenth Arrives Amid Resurgence of Black Lives Matter Movement
Melissa Lent, Gotham Gazette, 6/19/20
‘A threat to our children.’ How racism can affect a child’s mental and physical health
Chrisanna Mink, The Modesto Bee, 6/16/20
Seattle therapists: Police killings are traumatizing black children
Paris Jackson, Komo News, 6/18/20
Mental health experts weigh in on how to talk to children about racial equality
Kristen Gallant WJHL News Channel 11, 6/15/20