Lockdown, quarantine, isolation — they’re phrases we heard a lot at the start of 2020. And research from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that as the COVID-19 pandemic forced life as we know it to become more closed-off, children’s mental health suffered.
According to CDC research from November 2020, mental health-related emergency visits increased nationwide in mid-March of 2020. They continued into October with increases of 24% among children aged 5–11 years and 31% among those aged 12–17 years. Those numbers are compared with the same period in 2019.
But Heads Up for Harry is one local non-profit trying to keep kids from getting to that point.
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