Plus, State of the Children coverage
| The isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, on top of mounting societal pressures and substance use issues, has created a surge in mental health challenges like stress, anxiety and depression for today’s kids and teens, experts say. “This is a mental health tsunami,” Dr. Lisa Lowery, section chief of adolescent and young adult medicine at Spectrum Health, told the audience. “I’ve been doing this over 17 years now, and the number of mental health crises, increase in eating disorders, increase in suicidal ideation, I’ve never seen anything like it before. And it is so complicated and complex, whether it’s, ‘I don’t want to go back to school,’ ‘I’m trying to balance COVID,’ ‘I’m trying to balance all the societal pressures.’” READ MORE ►WATCH: Teens discuss mental health during State of the Child Panel Conversation ►Veteran teacher trying to inspire young educators as Michigan loses teachers |
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| The northwest part of the Upper Peninsula has just inched over 25 feet of snow this winter. The Keweenaw County Road Commission records daily snowfall, and they announced on their Facebook page this winter’s snowfall is now at 300.5 inches of snow. Across southern Lower Michigan, including the Lake Michigan snowbelt areas, snowfall is mostly below average. Just a swath from Lansing to Flint has recorded above normal snowfall. We typically see another 5 to 10 inches of snow across northern Michigan in April. Southern Lower can still have a couple inches of snow, unless we get a big April snowstorm, it has happened in the past. READ MORE ►Like discussing weather? Join our Michigan Weather group on Facebook
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