According to CDC among US high school students in 2023:
16% reported making a suicide plan in the past year.
40% reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year.
20% reported seriously considering attempting suicide in the past year.
CDC Report on Children’s mental health: https://www.cdc.gov/children-mental-health/data-research/index.html
Digital Stress in Youth: https://www.aura.com/reports/ai-kids-and-digital-stress
Our Philosophy: Catch them young, teach children tools to manage their mental health. School should incorporate via counselors simple breathing programs to give their students tools to cope with social pressures of today. Schools spend million of dollars on academics and sports but little on mental health which is the most important faculty for students to thrive in school and grow up into full fledge human beings. We want a child’s mental problems to be handled early in a natural way as a preventive mechanism before being referred to a health professional.
Simple Breathing Exercises for Kids
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