Nearly 1 in 3 parents say their children’s mental health is worse now than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
– a move reserved for the most urgent public health challenges – highlighting the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating impact on the already-dire state of children’s mental health.
“Everyone cognitively gets that this is a crisis, but I don't think we’ve moved as if it is,” said Lishaun Francis, the director of behavioral health at Children Now, an advocacy and research organization. Children Now is among the 17 school mental health groups comprising the Hopeful Futures Campaign, the coalition that produced “America’s School Mental Health Report Card.
But the vast majority of states lack the recommended ratios of school mental health professionals, including counselors, psychologists and social workers.
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