Using Cosplay to Get Through Anxiety
Her heart rate starts rising. Her hands begin to sweat and shake. She paces back and forth. “I feel like something is going to happen to me but nothing is really...
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Nov
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May
Richmond’s Native American Health Center Hosts Children’s Mental Health Day
by Malcolm Marshall More than 15 years after a landmark Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health brought attention to mental illness as an “urgent health concern,” many youth and adults with...
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Nov
Study: Trauma Follows Children Into Adulthood, Threat to Public Health in CA
News Report, Anna Challet | New America Media Past experiences of childhood trauma are common among California adults, and those experiences correlate with harmful behaviors and chronic disease at a level...
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Jul
For Depressed Youth, A Chance to Break the Silence
News Report, Marco Villalobos When Amber Cavarlez was 16 years old, her mother was diagnosed with cancer. As the oldest child, she cared for both her mother and her younger brother....
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Aug
Suit Alleges Mistreatment of California Minors With Mental Health Problems
News Report • Susan Ferriss, The Center for Public Integrity Minors with mental health problems and other disabilities are held in “unconscionable conditions” of 23-hour solitary confinement and deliberately cut off...
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May
School Health Centers, Where Students Can Let Out Their Worries
by Keyannie Norford Being a young person from Richmond, California, I face a lot on a day-to-day basis and I am thankful and grateful that we have a wonderful and useful...
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Aug
Youth and Depression: What to Look For, Where to Go For Help
News Feature, Adrienne Chainey Clinical depression is a very common and very serious occurrence, yet it often goes misunderstood by young people -- as well as the adults who care about...
