According to the Washington Post (12/5, A1, St. George, Strauss), across the US, “adolescent depression and anxiety – already at crisis levels before the pandemic – have surged amid the isolation, disruption and hardship of” the COVID-19 pandemic. However, “even as federal coronavirus relief money has helped schools step up their efforts to aid students, they also have come up short,” and it still remains “unclear how much money is going to mental health, how long efforts will last or if they truly reach those who struggle most.”
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