Students are returning to school

With anxiety, grief and gaps in social skills, will there be enough school mental health resources?

Even before Covid-19, as many as one in six young children had a diagnosed mental, behavioural or developmental disorder. New findings suggest a doubling of rates of disorders such as anxiety and depression among children and adolescents during the pandemic. One reason is that children’s well-being is tightly connected to family and community conditions such as stress and financial worries.