Tag: mental health
She had anxiety growing up. Now she’s teaching kids how to cope with it
A London passion project designed to help ease years of pandemic-related anxiety for elementary school pupils arose out of a university student’s struggles with mental health that began when she was a child. Fourth-year King’s University College student Simran Mann, 22, said she took on the special project as she approached her 21st birthday, creating […]
High schoolers’ video helps peers use national help line
A group of Woodstock high schoolers have created a video to help fellow students navigate Kids Help Line, a phone line for kids and youth, whose calls have mushroomed since the pandemic began.
Pearson: We must understand and lift anxiety’s long shadow
“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow,” says a Swedish proverb. That may be true, but in these days of insecurity, those shadows are everywhere and bigger than ever.
Area school board adding staff to help with students’ mental health
The region’s largest school board says it is boosting the number of staff it has to help students with mental health issues linked to two years of anxious pandemic learning.
Man, arrested after standoff, sentenced for assaulting mother, stepfather
A man deemed unfit to stand trial due to a psychotic disorder – a decision his psychiatrist later reversed –will keep getting mental-health supports after being sentenced for assaulting his mother and stepfather in separate incidents.