Addressing the Heightened Crisis of Childhood Trauma [usnews.com]

"When I first started to name the issue of childhood trauma 12 years ago," the Massachusetts Democrat says, "people would look at me quizzically and didn't understand what childhood trauma is or how pervasive it is. They tended to stereotype or minimize who was impacted by it."

Then, in March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic swept the country, shuttering schools for more than 50 million children – millions of whom relied on them for food, physical and mental health care, shelter and safety. It thrust millions of parents into unemployment and set in motion a mental health crisis that, after more than a year of loss, grief and isolation, has manifested in breathtaking levels of anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol use, gun violence and domestic abuse.

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