Health and Wellbeing
Sometimes kids struggle
Family conflicts, school pressures, losing relationships and important people, and finding identity can be hard for kids.
What’s harder is when there is nowhere to turn. A new suicide and crisis hotline number, 988, was recently created to support young people who are in crisis.
Every struggle is different. Because suicide is the second leading cause of death for young people ages 10 – 24, we need to make this a health emergency.
Here are some resources around mental health and support for your family:
- 988lifeline.org
- Journal of Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, January 2022
- Van Der Kolk,M.D., Bessel. (2020) The Body Keeps the Score. Brain, Mind, And Body In the Healing of Trauma.
- Wolynn, Mark. (2017) It Didn’t Start with You, How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
