Students aim to prevent school violence with help from Sandy Hook Promise
Through Sandy Hook Promise, Graham learned how young people can engage and teach others about preventing gun violence. Soon, she founded a SAVE club at her school.
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mental health
Machine learning in Maryland and elsewhere opens new possibilities for suicide prevention
The resulting research paper, titled “Reasons to Live Instead of Dying by Suicide: New Insights from a Computer-Assisted Content Analysis,” uses machine learning to discern the reasons the Redditors chose to live.
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Parents often struggle to find help for troubled youngsters — but this Maryland program can help
Many other parents are just as content, according to the Maryland Behavioral Health Integration in Pediatric Primary Care program’s last quarterly report. Of 231 families who completed a satisfaction survey, 98.3% reported they would be likely or very likely to recommend the social work intern to a friend or family member.
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Schools can screen students for behavioral health issues – but many are reluctant to do so
After Achilles Bardos learned about the internet in the 1990s, he thought to himself, “Why not in psychology?”
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‘Playworks’ reinvents recess as a learning experience
You won’t find swings, slides, or a kickball field outside Rhawnhurst School. Instead, the elementary school’s “playground” is a vast expanse of barren blacktop with just a lone basketball hoop.
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Rapid-response teams aid troubled youths in New Jersey – but funding limits Maryland’s similar effort
Access to mental health care was complicated in her rural county, and school officials considered suspending the 6-year-old. That was when the school notified New Jersey’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services — an urgent response system built to aid those in crisis without sending them to the emergency room or getting the police involved.
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As Maryland youngsters struggle, some get their best help from peers
Hope Squad, another program recognized by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, has made its way into Maryland through Cecil County, according to Grace Babula, the organization’s director of marketing and communications.
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Other states have tackled youth gambling. Why hasn’t Maryland?
Nearly one in five Maryland high school students have gambled in the past year, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. In Garrett and Queen Anne’s counties, that rate is close to one in four.
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Eliminating mandatory psychiatric coverage: toughening up America and saving millions of people billions of dollars
If Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are serious and fearless – and one thinks that they manifestly are — about the dual goals of saving the American people money and increasing their independence and control of their lives, they should start by terminating the mandatory health insurance that Americans pay for mental health.
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Maryland spent big on youth mental health — but then the budget crisis hit
Suicide rates among youth and young adults increased 62% nationwide from 2007 to 2021, according to the CDC. Meanwhile in Maryland, the teen suicide rate increased by more than a third from 2014 through 2022.
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