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As case managers and family advocates at Seattle Children’s, we see firsthand how challenging it can be for families to navigate mental health and wellness resources. In supporting children and families, we hear about the same barriers again and again — long waitlists, limited providers, cost, stigma and simply not knowing where to turn. These…

Many kids in King County are struggling with depression or with mental health concerns, although according to the latest Washington Healthy Youth Survey, things are getting incrementally better. Among thousands of 10th graders surveyed in 2025:

About one in five young people aged 13 to 22 already seek out AI chatbots for mental health advice. A qualitative study published Monday by Stanford researcher Caroline Figueroa found they know exactly what is wrong with the tools they are using: AI is designed to agree with them, and that agreement is making them…

Dr Kate Martinis encouraged by the new network of community clinics, while Prof Dr John R Ashton says the forthcoming mental health strategy is an opportunity to grasp the nettle, while Marjorie Wallace expresses concerns about plans to cut mental health jobs in the NHS

Schools have never been places where children only learn to read, write and count. They are also places where young people learn how to belong, cope, relate, fail, recover and grow. Long before the term “student well-being” became common in policy documents, several educational pioneers were already challenging the idea that children’s emotional lives could…