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Mental health needs among all age groups, especially youth, are skyrocketing. All too often, the stigma, cost, and accessibility of seeking care keep kids from getting the support they need. However since 2018, Growing Community Connections, the South Sioux City Schools, and Heartland Counseling Services have partnered to overcome these barriers by putting therapists in every elementary, middle, and high school in the district, training every school staff member in mental health first aid, and connecting students and families with community resources that ease stress-inducing burdens.
Online talk focuses on underage drinking, teen mental health
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SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - In the last 10-years, in kids 12-to-17, depression has doubled.
That was one focus of an online community talk , Monday night, looking at underage drinking and teen mental health.
Looking at statistics provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, depression among teens in Nebraska jumped form 7.7% ten years ago… to 13.6%. In Iowa, depression rose from 7.0% ten years ago to 16.2%. It s pretty alarming, said Jennifer Jackson, Heartland Counseling Services. The national average is that 41-percent of kids receive help, but in Iowa and Nebraska, only 46-percent of kids that have been diagnosed with depression, or who are struggling with depression, are getting the help they need.