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Today's donation goes to the Crossroads Children's Mental Health Centre, geared to mental health support for Ontario youngsters up to the age of twelve:
https://crossroadschildren.ca
The mental health of children, whose social and educational lives have been turned upside down by the ongoing pandemic, has been very much in the news lately with plans for a return to school in the fall currently being developed. Six months is a long time in the life of a child, and that's how long most of them will have been shut off from school life when September rolls around.
Anxiety, depression, emotional problems, loss of basic academic, language and social skills - those are just some of the issues we as a society are going to have to deal with as we prepare to get kids back to school and other routines of daily life. And the adults facilitating this transition have their own challenges to cope with too.
With patience, persistence and targeted but flexible support measures, we'll get there. It won't be easy and it won't be cheap. But children - and people in general - can be surprisingly resilient and we can't afford not to try.
https://crossroadschildren.ca
The mental health of children, whose social and educational lives have been turned upside down by the ongoing pandemic, has been very much in the news lately with plans for a return to school in the fall currently being developed. Six months is a long time in the life of a child, and that's how long most of them will have been shut off from school life when September rolls around.
Anxiety, depression, emotional problems, loss of basic academic, language and social skills - those are just some of the issues we as a society are going to have to deal with as we prepare to get kids back to school and other routines of daily life. And the adults facilitating this transition have their own challenges to cope with too.
With patience, persistence and targeted but flexible support measures, we'll get there. It won't be easy and it won't be cheap. But children - and people in general - can be surprisingly resilient and we can't afford not to try.
