![]() ![]() Many young people are dealing with this laundry list of challenges, in part, by acknowledging and nurturing their mental well-being. Surgeon General recently released an advisory stating they have become a “major public health concern.” Isolation and loneliness are so detrimental to our mental health that the U.S. ![]() The combination of pandemic trauma, remote learning and social distancing, and social unrest and polarization has led to more stress and isolation and less social development. The past few years have been challenging for most of us, and especially for young people. Young people today understand this better than any previous generation, and the rest of us stand to learn a lot from them and their approach to caring for their own mental health and the mental health of those around them. We hosted the event with our partner The Joy Labs because at the Y, we believe having honest conversations like these is essential to normalizing the fact that we all have mental health-it’s how we think, feel and act. They covered everything from strategies they lean on when they’re feeling down to how they’d like to see schools and organizations show up in the mental health space. Last month, the Y hosted a virtual panel with five incredible young adults who shared their experiences navigating mental health. ![]()
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