PPAL is an organization dedicated providing hope for children with mental health needs and their families through education, advocacy, outreach and support.
May is mental health month. I've been thinking a lot about how stigma is so much like cancel culture for families whose kids have mental health issues. So I wrote about it in 'Stigma is a form of cancel culture' https://t.co/Vt2as5itIQ #childrensmentalhealth#stigma
PPAL's new study in the Globe! 243 families told us how loss during COVID affected their kids. They said those losses made their kids' mental health issues worse. There needs to be more awareness and new approaches to kids mental health. https://t.co/Gvs3nGw0sv
Part 2 of our March Q of the month asked for the longest wait time children had in the last 2 years. About half said it was 6 months or longer. With waits like this can the kids mh crisis improve? #childrensmentalhealth
We ask, families answer. In March almost 200 told us what mental health services their child was waiting for. Outpatient was #1. Meanwhile, their kids got worse. #childrensmentalhealth
Hoping parents will come to our series of listening sessions and talk about how the last 2 years have impacted their child's mental health and getting care for them. Tomorrow's session is in Spanish. Register here: https://t.co/HnpwEwndGw
#childrensmentalhealth@kidsMHmass
Our February Q of the month asked parents if a CRA had been filed against their child. 31% said yes. About half said they were the ones who went to juvenile court and asked them to provide help and supervision. #juvenilejustice#statusoffence#childrensmentalhealth
Calls to us from families whose kids have mental health needs have exploded since the beginning of the pandemic and show no signs of slowing down. #childrensmentalhealth#pandemic
43% of parents told us their child was struggling most of the time in the last question of our January Q of the Month. Only 1 in 5 said their child was doing well most of the time. #childrensmentalhealth
Why do you think this is?
PPAL's January Q of the Month - part 2 - asked parents if their kids were getting the needed support at school this year? Two-thirds said nope or not really. #returntoschool#supportkids#childrensmentalhealth
Our January question - part 1 - asked parents how kids are doing this school year. No surprise -- anxiety, school avoidance and sadness are up. Concentration has dropped down. #schoolavoidance#childrensmentalhealth#anxiety
In December, the Office of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy released an advisory called “Protecting Youth Mental Health.”
Here is what we as a society can do, according to the report.
https://t.co/FqK2Gg5rfn