Youth mental health metrics, federal budget impacts, social protection systems, and the determinants shaping young people's well-being worldwide.
Proposed cuts terminate $1B in Bipartisan Safer Communities Act school mental health grants, hitting schools at a moment of record youth counselling demand. Advocates warn of long-lasting generational harm.
Governor Hochul announces expansion of the Community Mental Health Loan Repayment Program — offering up to $30,000 for mental health professionals serving youth in licensed New York state programmes.
A new OECD publication documents a long-running pre-pandemic decline in youth mental health that has intensified across member states, with social media, inequality, and climate anxiety as primary drivers.
Launched at the Commission for Social Development, the report calls for structural policy responses across six social determinants of youth mental health — not only clinical responses.
A WHO multi-country analysis finds statistically significant correlation between heavy social media use and anxiety in adolescents aged 13–17, with girls showing notably higher vulnerability than boys.
New OECD data from 38 member countries reveals escalating social isolation among the 16–25 cohort, prompting calls for coordinated policy intervention including community investment and digital regulation.