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Mental Health Crises

In this clip, professors talk about being at a loss on how to support students going through mental health struggles. They discuss how a trauma-informed, anti-racist lens would have created more holistic supports. Content Warning: suicide, PTSD

Clinical anxiety and depression, suicidal ideation, the impact of social media… All of that was there prior to the pandemic. It ramped up… That’s that generation that’s now if they made it through the pandemic, some of them are in our colleges and universities, and we’re not talking about it.