Hold On: How to Support our Teens' Mental Health
Death, Sex & Money
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The Importance of Broadening the Workforce to Care for Young People
The pandemic brought about a big uptick in how much distress teenagers felt. There aren't a lot of clinicians who do that work and our training takes a long time. We didn't actually have the workforce available to care for the surge in need, nor was it something we could do in terms of quickly scaling up the workforce to care for teenagers. It can make such a difference in the life of a young person if they feel like the person who's caring for them knows or shares some of their experience around their identity.
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