By Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, April 4, 2021
After a year of school closures and isolation, many Bay Area students are suffering. Parents and teachers have reported failing grades and rising depression. Suicide attempts in adolescents are skyrocketing.
To meet the emerging crisis, San Francisco is expanding a mobile response team that provides mental health and wellness services to children, including the school district’s students.
The mobile mental health crisis service, operated by nonprofit Seneca Family of Agencies, can “respond to whatever the need is, whenever the need is, wherever the need is,” said Amy Kirsztajn, regional director of San Francisco programs. The team provides non-police and age-appropriate help for children experiencing a mental health crisis or in need of preventative care, ranging from counseling to crisis prevention.
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