Kids' Mental Health, by the Numbers

Ten years ago, New York State pledged to reinvent mental health services for young people. Instead, writes Center for New York City Affairs senior editor Abigail Kramer, the system is “more inundated than ever with sick children and adolescents who cannot find the mental health care to which they are, in theory, entitled by law.”

The result: More and more young people struggling with the serious emotional fallout of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic while the Medicaid-funded system designed to help them flails – and fails.

In its new report, “Kids’ Mental Health by the Numbers,” the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School illustrates this stark failure in State health care policy with 10 striking graphs drawn from a variety of public datasets.

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