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VTDigger is well positioned to work with Vermont Care Partners to promote the much needed services of its sixteen respective member agencies which, includes NCSS. They also understand how important it is for our elected officials to know how to support the needs of vulnerable Vermonters.
This thirteen week series is a collaboration produced by members of the Vermont Care Partners statewide network of sixteen non-profit, community-based agencies providing mental health, substance use and intellectual and developmental disability support.
Below is the eleventh installment of the series from United Counseling Service (UCS), that focuses on how COVID impacts youth and the importance of supporting children and families which can have lasting effects.
COVID IMPACTS THE YOUNGEST
How taking an early lead in supporting children and families through the pandemic can have lasting effects.
Excerpts from article:
Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers around the world have suffered from the isolation and other negative effects of COVID-19 in ways both similar to, and markedly different from, school-age children and adults. In the spring of 2020, millions of young children across the globe saw their childcare facilities and preschools shut down, literally overnight, which was the first of many blows to their social and emotional development and mental wellbeing. Depending on the child and the circumstance, they returned to their center-based settings, anywhere from three months to six months later, to find them drastically altered by sweeping changes in public health protocols compounded by staffing shortages.
According to Vermont’s Building Bright Futures, “There is ample anecdotal evidence of an increase in behavioral, emotional, and mental health conditions in children under 18. 30% of children between the ages of 3–17 in Vermont have one or more behavioral, emotional, developmental or mental health condition.” Read more…
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