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Members of a U.S. Senate committee on Thursday detailed a complicated patchwork of issues that contribute to youth mental health challenges, including violence and trauma within schools and communities, the damaging effects of social media, worry about what a changing climate will look like when they’re adults and hate speech against LGBTQ people. (Getty Images)

Social media, trauma, hate speech add to youth mental health crisis, U.S. Senate panel told
BY: - June 8, 2023

WASHINGTON — U.S. senators agreed during a hearing Thursday the country’s children are going through a youth mental health crisis, though some of the committee’s members disagreed about what role Congress has to play. Senators detailed a complicated patchwork of issues that contribute to youth mental health challenges, including violence and trauma within schools and […]

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