As the first quarter of the school year comes to a close, Baltimore County district leaders have two main priorities on the agenda: student well-being and the 2024-25 operating budget. Starting in November, all highschoolers will gain access to virtual mental health and meditation services through an app called TalkSpace, Superintendent Myriam Rogers announced in…

Credit: Pavel Danilyuk from Pexels American health workers are facing a mental health crisis intensified by rising harassment that spiked during the COVID pandemic, according to an official report published Tuesday. Between 2018 and 2022, more than double the number of doctors, nurses and others reported harassment at work either from patients or coworkers, which…

Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, accusing it of building and operating platforms that have caused serious harm to young people and adolescents.  The lawsuit, filed Oct. 24 in district court in Northern California, claims Meta’s platforms have “profoundly altered the psychological and social realities of a generation…

Maryland, the District of Columbia and 40 other states are suing Meta alleging that its platforms cause harm to children by building in addictive features. Stock.adobe.com photo by Rawpixel. By Bridget Byrne Maryland, the District of Columbia and 40 other states are suing Meta alleging that its platforms cause harm to children by building addictive…

For the adults in K-12 schools, the biggest source of students’ mental angst is clear: bullying online through social media and via text. But high school students have a very different opinion on what’s dragging down their mental health. Among teens, the most cited factor is stress related to finishing schoolwork and homework, followed by…

Perhaps more than ever, mental health has become a central, normalized topic of conversation in households and online. That’s especially true for Gen Z, the first generation whose entire lives have take place during the Internet Age. Emma Lembke is a student at Washington University in St. Louis. When she did the research, she saw…

As the culture expert on the Netflix hit Queer Eye and host of a nationally syndicated talk show, Karamo is known for the ease with which he relates to other people, helping them to discover strength in their identities. Drawing from his own experiences and work in social services, Karamo will talk about the mental…