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