Schools Should Prioritize Mental Health Resources — for Both Students and Staff
, a 42-year-old math teacher at Rhode Island’s North Kingstown High School, died by suicide in May after struggling with depression. The small community of North Kingstown, which had a population slightly below 28,000 in the last census, was rocked by her death. Months later, educators and students are still trying to understand and accept the loss.
This has had an outsize impact on the mental health of the country’s public school students. According to theconducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released in April 2022, millions of kids are hurting. In fact, 37.1 percent said that they had suffered from “poor mental health” during the COVID-19 shutdown. Nearly 20 percent said that they had considered suicide. Nine percent had made an attempt and more than one-third, 36.
A report written by SchoolHouse Connection, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that helps undomiciled students stay in school, details the impact: “Homelessness at any age is a traumatic experience, causing emotional, physical, and mental injuries in children and youth,” the report reads. “It is caused by traumatic events and often leads to traumatic events, creating layers of compounding trauma that have serious consequences.
“The system is broken in many ways,” Pitzi continues. “It’s actually heartbreaking. It used to be that the kids would need food, clothing or a place to shower or do laundry and I always knew where to send them. Today they need counseling or affordable housing and all I can do is listen.”Jordyn Roark, director of youth leadership and scholarship at SchoolHouse Connection, blames students’ struggles with mental health on the pandemic.
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