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Category: Children’s Health

Shows a young woman sitting in the semi-dark with her hands in front of her face. She represents the many children and adolescents who are having mental health issues.
Posted inMental Health

Youth mental health crisis is “the next wave of the pandemic,” Duke psychiatrist says

by Anne Blythe July 22, 2022July 21, 2022

By Anne Blythe More than $110 billion has been awarded to North Carolina in federal aid to help battle COVID-19 as wave after wave of variants spread illness and disruption — even for President Joe Biden, who now has to isolate at the White House after testing positive for the virus. As North Carolina elevates its […]

shows a smiling little girl at a table with flowers, a little boy is in the background, just out of focus. they're both at a summer school lunches program. School lunch programs were suspended because of COVID-19, but school districts across North Carolina came up with alternatives.
Posted inChildren's Health

Congress passes a bill with provisions to save pandemic-era universal free school lunches

by Daily Yonder July 16, 2022July 15, 2022
shows, from behind, a young boy holding up a firearm/ gun. No gun locks in sight.
Posted inChildren's Health

Firearms safety advocates are frustrated that NC lawmakers have not funded a gun lock campaign

by Rose Hoban July 13, 2022July 12, 2022
From behind, shows a man holding the hand of a little boy. Whether this is a parent or a foster parent is unknown, but the child appears calm and cared for.
Posted inChildren's Health

An attempt to streamline mental health care for NC foster care children meets resistance

by Rose Hoban June 30, 2022June 29, 2022
shows a little boy in glasses and wearing a mask getting a vaccine against COVID, the coronavirus
Posted inInfectious Disease

NC pediatricians gear up for giving COVID-19 shots to infants, toddlers

by Anne Blythe, Taylor Knopf and Rose Hoban June 22, 2022June 21, 2022
a man stands in front of a door smiling
Posted inRural Health

Edgecombe County puts trauma front and center to heal the community

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven May 31, 2022June 1, 2022

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