Legions of California students need immediate mental health help, but can’t get it in a state where the ability to deliver school-based mental health counseling and intervention is profoundly lacking.
L.A. Unified alone set aside $177 million to hire nearly 900 social workers and other mental health staff for the 2021-2022 school year. One year later, only about one third of the social workers had been hired.
In making the announcement in August, Newsom described “a system that self-evidently has failed and continues to fail.”Waits, disappointment, anxiety She began to experience periods of intense anger or penetrating sadness. All of it “made me feel very afraid,” she said. “It was fear. And it was anxiety. And it was me not wanting to walk down the street because I didn’t know who would be around the corner.”
The school wellness center at the Elizabeth Learning Center in Cudahy where she works was inundated with about 1,000 more student mental health referrals compared to previous yearsrequests to help students with anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and other mental health needs.
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