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California confronts youth mental health crisis – CalMatters

By Thomas A. Smith

As California approaches the two-year anniversary of when Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation s first stay-at-home order due to COVID-19, the issue of children s mental health is taking on increased urgency in the state Capitol.

  • State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond is sponsoring a bill that would help fund aspiring mental health clinicians education and push California closer to his goal of filling 10,000 new school counselor positions.
  • Attorney General Rob Bonta is investigating both TikTok and Instagram for promoting their social media platforms to kids and young adults, despite allegedly knowing they exert a devastating toll on children s mental health and well-being.
  • And a bipartisan pair of state lawmakers introduced a proposal Tuesday that would allow California parents to sue social media companies for harms caused by hooking their kids on addictive algorithms.

via calmatters.org

I hope they figure out some way to stick it to the social media companies. Something should be done to encourage them to not drive our kids into mental illness just so they can make some coin. I doubt they will however. These companies have mucho juice, especially in Sacramento.