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‘Stop it! You’re making me sick!’: Moving documentary spotlights the pivotal battl

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Oct 13, 2021
5 min

‘Stop it! You’re making me sick!’: Moving documentary spotlights the pivotal battl

By Julianne Hill and Hermes Falcon Urban Health Media Project As recently as 1973, homosexuality was considered a “sexual deviancy” and gay people were classified as mentally ill by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). The LGBTQ+ community and its allies have activists such as Barbara Gittings and DC’s own Dr. Frank Kameny to thank for the change that year, a new documentary shows. The film, “Cured,” tells the inspiring story of the brave individuals who successfully u

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Missouri high school students recommend ways to improve school safety, student mental health

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Sep 8, 2021
5 min

Missouri high school students recommend ways to improve school safety, student mental health

By Brie Zeltner and Malaya Mason St. Louis, MO - More licensed therapists on campus. Requiring parent or guardian participation in all school safety discussions. Implementing “calm rooms” where students can go to center themselves. Making every school inclusive and welcoming of students of all genders, sexual identities, races and abilities. These are just some of the ways that Missouri high school students, members of a youth advisory board at St. Louis nonprofit Alive and W

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Borough students talk mental health, racism in local high schools

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Sep 8, 2021
4 min

Borough students talk mental health, racism in local high schools

By Brie Zeltner and Sarah Gandluri For Justin Soyka, the crisis came in middle school. During his 8th grade year, he survived two suicide attempts, and was hospitalized twice before he was able to get help for his depression, ADHD and crippling anxiety. “Growing up it wasn’t so easy not loving yourself and not being that ‘perfect image’ of what society portrays or what people expect,” Soyka, 18, told a group of youth peers during a recent discussion of the impacts of mental h

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Staten Island high school students face racial segregation, bullying and mental health issues

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Sep 8, 2021
3 min

Staten Island high school students face racial segregation, bullying and mental health issues

By Pamela Rentz and Malaya Mason Youth leaders in high schools across Staten Island say that some of the biggest challenges facing their generation-- especially amidst the past two years of social unrest and a global pandemic-- are maintaining mental health and fighting racial inequities. Youth mental health issues have been on the rise since before the COVID-19 pandemic, and have only worsened since then, with increases in requests for mental health services, rates of depres

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Missouri high school students call for more mental health services in schools to increase feelings o

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Sep 8, 2021
4 min

Missouri high school students call for more mental health services in schools to increase feelings o

St. Louis, Missouri -- Feeling safe in school was a problem in Missouri even before the pandemic added the unprecedented element of fear and anxiety of being exposed to a potentially deadly virus. As schools moved to remote learning, many of the daily concerns about physical safety in schools-- from bullying to school shooters-- decreased. Yet mental health concerns, including feeling safe, comfortable and supported in the school environment, remained. That, and the return to

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Monroe County students work to promote, elevate youth voices

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Sep 8, 2021
4 min

Monroe County students work to promote, elevate youth voices

By Sophia Garcia From protests against gun violence to the Black Lives Matter movement, the nation has recently seen young people take the lead on a wide variety of social movements. In Rochester, students have slipped pink slips inside Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office door to protest cuts to education, received training from the New York Civil Liberties Union to become leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement and organized protests, rallies and marches to battle systemic racism.

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Albuquerque Students tackle mental health, racial equity in schools

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Sep 8, 2021
3 min

Albuquerque Students tackle mental health, racial equity in schools

By Radiah Jamil and Kayla Johnson A group of Albuquerque teens and young adults have big plans to tackle problems they see in area schools, including a lack of adequate mental health support for students and a school curriculum that does not incorporate enough diversity into assigned readings. The youth are part of the student-led advocacy group Voices in Action (VIA), formed by Albuquerque Public Schools students in 2015, and now helps students in eight area schools learn ab

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Youth fight for racial justice, and take their convictions to the polls

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Sep 7, 2021
3 min

Youth fight for racial justice, and take their convictions to the polls

By Alan Gomez and Pamela Rentz With the world gripped by a global pandemic and protests over police brutality raging across the U.S., young adults and teenagers played a significant role in the activism work that defined 2020. Generation Z and Millenials were heavily involved in protests, marches, social media campaigns and the November elections. A majority of people who attended Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 were under the age of 30 and young Americans turned out for

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Jacksonville youth face rising rates of trauma, mental health issues

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Sep 7, 2021
3 min

Jacksonville youth face rising rates of trauma, mental health issues

By Angely Pena Agramonte Teens today are under a lot of stress: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that the proportion of young people visiting an emergency department due to a mental health crisis climbed by 31 percent during the six months between April and October of 2020. And that’s amidst a global pandemic that has left many people afraid to seek treatment, especially in a hospital. It’s impossible to tell how many other young people were in

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Jacksonville high school student-activists chart their course

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Sep 7, 2021
4 min

Jacksonville high school student-activists chart their course

By Sophia Garcia Generation Z - born roughly between the mid 1990s and early 2010s - has already made a name for itself due to its willingness to advocate for myriad social causes, from LGBTQ+ rights, abortion rights, and immigration to environmental consciousness. This group of young people has also taken on the issue of gun control following a series of school shootings in recent years, most notably at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018. “(We) go all o

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Gaffney Middle, High School students aim to reduce stigma around mental health

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Sep 7, 2021
4 min

Gaffney Middle, High School students aim to reduce stigma around mental health

By Pam Rentz and Sarah Meehan After watching their peers struggle with mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of students in Cherokee County, S.C., hope to dispel stigmas around talking about challenges with anxiety, depression, suicide and other mental health conditions. Although youth in Cherokee County agree mental health problems are prevalent in their community, they said it’s rare for people to talk about them. Now, middle and high school students in Thrive

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Thrive-U Youth Highlight Mental Health Concerns of South Carolina Students Amid Remote Learning

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Sep 7, 2021
3 min

Thrive-U Youth Highlight Mental Health Concerns of South Carolina Students Amid Remote Learning

By Radiah Jamil, Kayla Johnson and Sarah Meehan Students from Gaffney High School and Ewing Middle School are planning to launch a podcast about mental health challenges, and scheduling meetings with town and county officials to keep the voices of youth at the forefront of decisions that affect them. “Youth [have] been going through a lot with depression, stress, drug and alcohol abuse, academic problems, bullying, violence and lack of adult support,” said Cortez Dawkins, a r

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Mental health, racial disparities and technology issues top concerns for New Mexico youth

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Sep 7, 2021
3 min

Mental health, racial disparities and technology issues top concerns for New Mexico youth

By Pamela Rentz and Sarah Meehan Mental health issues, racial disparities and lack of technology access were problematic for New Mexico students prior to COVID-19. And the pandemic exacerbated those complications for students across Albuquerque Public Schools. Albuquerque students worked with advocacy organizations, education officials and legislators throughout the 2020-2021 academic year after a survey by the Learning Alliance of New Mexico identified those issues as the th

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