Dr. Chieh Cheng to address youth mental health with Tacoma Public Schools, MultiCare
The UW Population Health Initiative has awarded a Tier 1 pilot research grant to Cheng to develop and test behavioral health promotion approaches in schools.
Crisis in Children's Mental Health
For the UW Tacoma podcast Paw'd Defiance, we brought together Ashley Mangum, Program Manager of Pediatric Mental Health at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital; Kianna Carter, Youth Engagement Services Behavioral Health Clinician at Mary Bridge; and Chris Barrans, Director of Field Education/Assistant Teaching Professor at UW Tacoma's School of Social Work & Criminal Justice.
The three discuss how the issues we're seeing now with children's mental health started long before the pandemic. We also talk about how the pandemic exacerbated theses issues, and about the resources available to children, their parents and caregivers.