More than 130 national and state children’s groups are asking the Biden administration to do more to address youth mental health, including by issuing an emergency declaration on the issue — the latest amplification of the seriousness of the youth mental health crisis.
The groups made the request in a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday. The letter came a year after child and adolescent psychiatrists, children’s hospitals and pediatricians declared their own state of emergency over the dramatic uptick in children’s mental health concerns and months after Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued his own advisory pertaining to the youth crisis.
Congress and the administration have taken some actions to specifically address the behavioral health needs of children and adolescents, but the groups want them to do more.
