Mental health problems among children and youth pose many challenges that complicate their young lives, inhibit healthy development, and often continue into adulthood if they aren’t identified and properly addressed. According to a recent national report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA):
- 8.1 percent of America’s adolescents aged 12 to 17 (2 million youth) experienced at least one major depressive episode (MDE) in 2009;
- only 34.7 percent of these adolescents received treatment during this period; and
- Adolescents who had suffered from an MDE in 2009 were more than three times as likely as other adolescents to have had a substance use disorder in the same period.
via ncwd-youth.info
I wonder what support for transition occurs in schools?