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Older Foster Youth Can Feel Unprepared to Navigate Mental Health Care, Study Finds
April 23, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
A new study published by the Journal of Adolescent Health found that a high percentage of foster teens do not feel prepared to manage their own mental health upon entering adulthood, despite high rates of medication and mental health service use.
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California Rolls Out Plan to Prevent Youth from Aging Out of Foster Care During Pandemic
April 22, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
California’s Gov. Newsom joined Illinois and Rhode Island in laying out a plan to prevent young people currently on extended foster care services from aging out during the pandemic.
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With Senior Year In Disarray, Teens And Young Adults Feel Lost. Here’s How To Help
April 20, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
Tips and guidance from child-serving mental health professionals on how to support young people dealing with grief and disappointment due to missing developmental milestones, such as prom and graduation, during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mental health experts race to help children cope with stay-at-home life amid coronavirus closures
April 10, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
How providers are responding to the difficulties posed by Coronavirus-related closures and adapting their interventions to new virtual platforms, and tackling the associated challenges
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Coronavirus and Parenting: What You Need to Know Now
March 13, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
This article from NPR covers all the bases of talking to your kids about the Coronavirus, from “How do I get them to stop touching their faces?!” to “With racist incidents toward Asians and Asian Americans, is this a teaching moment for social justice?”
Thousands of Foster Children Were Sent Out of State to Mental Health Facilities Where Some Faced Abuse and Neglect
March 13, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
ProPublica, in collaboration with the Chicago Tribune, takes a deep dive into the practice of sending foster children out of state for foster care, and the unchecked abuse and neglect these young people often faced hundreds of miles away from their homes and supports.
Screen Time and the Mental Health of Children
March 9, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
Researchers studying the results of questionnaires filled out by thousands of children ages 9 to 11 and their parents have found associations between electronic media use and mental health, although they say the magnitude of the impact they measured is statistically small.
Three Better Ways to Support Foster Youth than Extending Care to 26
March 9, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
An alumni of the foster care system discusses his changing views on a California bill which would extend the state’s optional foster care system for young adults through age 25.
Study shows 14% decline in pediatrician visits
March 9, 2020 | Maria Hermsen-Kritz
A new study found a 14% decline in pediatrician visits among children with private insurance, while behavioral and psychiatric visits increased. Preventative visits also increased, perhaps due to the fact that the Affordable Care Act had eliminated copays for this type of visit. This article discusses the implications of these findings.
in children with private insurance. behavioral and psychiatric visits increased. preventative care visits also increased – this was during the time when ACA eliminated copays for these findings.
Child Trends Research: Special Health Care Needs And ACEs
December 13, 2019 | Emily Taylor
Child Trends’ analysis of data from the 2016-17 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) found that children and youth with special health care needs are more likely to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Child Trends authors point out the need to work to ensure that trauma-informed approaches are integrated into places and environments where these children (and their caregivers) receive services.