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Talk About Mental Health: For Young People Looking for Help
Mental health problems don’t only affect adults. Children, teens and young adults can have mental health problems, too. In fact, three out of four people with mental health problems showed signs before they were 24 years old. Read more >>
Study: Losing a Grandmother Can Have Long-Lasting Mental Health Effects for Kids and Adolescents
The death of a grandmother can have severe and lasting mental health consequences for both her adult children and grandchildren, according to our recently published study. This finding may be surprising, because the death of a grandparent is a normal, Read more >>
Before Heading to College, Make a Mental Health Checklist
In other words, what can they do to protect their mental health? Experts suggest that parents and teenagers take proactive steps now to help plan for and preserve mental well-being during the big transition to college. Read more >>
BIPOC Mental Health Toolkit [downloadable]
BIPOC communities are significantly more likely to develop mental health conditions, and major barriers to mental health treatment are access and the need for understanding mental health supports. Mental Health America recognizes that Black, Indigenous, and people of color have Read more >>
What Is Children’s Mental Health?
Being mentally healthy during childhood means reaching developmental and emotional milestones and learning healthy social skills and how to cope when there are problems. Mentally healthy children have a positive quality of life and can function well at home, in Read more >>
School Mental Health Resources Critical to Ensuring Safe School Environments
Whenever a mass shooting takes place in schools, public discussion often focuses on laws or policies that might have prevented the tragedy. But averting school violence needs more than gun policy. It requires both prevention and crisis response that take Read more >>
Recipe for Resilience – Especially for Mental Health Professionals
In proud partnership with Common Ground, a locally renowned speaker series for over 15,000 families in over 40 schools, we are excited to bring you this Voices of Compassion podcast episode. While Common Ground is primarily a parent education consortium, Read more >>
Self-Care for Mental Health Professionals
It’s well known that mental health professions are associated with burnout. That risk increases when the general population faces prolonged stress, psychotherapy is in higher demand, and students’ needs—both remote and in-person—are more taxing. Read more >>
Although data exist to support the notion that physician self-care is correlated with patient care, the culture of medicine has traditionally valued the ideals of self-sacrifice and perfectionism — often to the detriment of clinicians themselves. Read more >>
How to Talk With Teens About Mental Health
Between 2009 and 2019, the percentage of teens who reported having “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to 37 percent and, in 2021, to 44 percent. Further, research shows that 1 in 5 youth in distress Read more >>
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CHC Palo Alto:
650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
650.326.5530
CHC South Bay:
2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
408.831.7512
CHC Ravenswood:
1765 E Bayshore Rd, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
650.702.2487
