Forbes September 13, 2023
Walgreens and Mental Health America recently announced the launch of a collaborative, back-to-school campaign to help address the biggest contributors to youth mental health issues. Together, they have created a toolkit to help support parents, teachers and students in outlining healthy practices for teens and adolescents.
A special focus in the new toolkit addresses the potentially detrimental effects of social media on the mental health of American youth. The toolkit offers insight into how youth can best navigate virtual spaces and provides resources to screen students for a range of mental health conditions.
This resource comes at an opportune time. According to the CDC’s Bi-Annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey that gathered ten years’ worth of data from 2011-2021 amongst high...
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