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Kathy Hochul: “Young people are facing unprecedented [mental health…”

Featuring: Kathy Hochul, Democratic | Governor of New York

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I've been on a journey since probably a year and a half, almost two years now, to talk about the mental health challenges that our students are facing. Young people are facing unprecedented. And trying to figure out Young people are facing unprecedented [mental health challenges] triggered by the pandemic and the isolation that they felt. And that disconnect during really formative years in their lives. And many of them being denied the rituals of life, you know, the graduation from kindergarten or middle school to high school and high school graduations and proms. (00:57–01:10)

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Asserts that the pandemic and isolation have triggered unprecedented mental health challenges in young people.

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