With many people still struggling in the wake of the pandemic, this week s National Depression Screening Day on Oct. 6 is a reminder to Illinoisans to take stock of their mental health. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports the average delay between the onset of mental illness symptoms and treatment is 11 years. .
A study by New Mexico State University shows the number of suicides among U.S. Hispanics is on the rise, in part because they are buying more guns. Jagdish Khubchandani, public health sciences professor at New Mexico State and the study s co-author, said suicides by Hispanic adults in the group increased by more than 70% between 2010 and 2020, while their population grew only 25% over the same period. .
Because of the hit of COVID, telehealth become popular instead of in-person healthcare visits. Nonprofit social workers see the shorthanded in the field because of this new healthcare mode.
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Nonprofit social workers in New York are seeing a shortage of people coming into the field, abdicating it for telehealth work. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth began to fill the gaps for in-person visits. However, the shift to a semi-virtual landscape has left some nonprofits without applicants to fill open positions. .