Employee Benefit News October 13, 2021
When COVID hit, Naomi Allen knew she needed help.
“My oldest kid, who has anxiety, had gotten very stabilized but had a total recurrence of his anxiety at multiple points during COVID,” Allen says. “My two twins who are younger and have been going through an ADHD diagnosis, had really disruptive patterns in terms of being able to keep organized and manage their daily activities.”
Allen, the co-founder and CEO of Brightline, a family mental health provider, is one of millions of parents who have been faced with skyrocketing rates of mental and behavioral health issues among adolescents and teens. Pre-COVID, 12.8 million children between 3 and 17 years old had been diagnosed with anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, and ADD...