California’s Investments May Not Be Enough to Aid Youth Mental Health Care
October 27, 2022
In August, The Children’s Partnership hosted a mental health panel centered around the voices of young girls and women of color. The session was organized as part of the organization’s Youth of Color initiative. “I had never been surrounded by a group of people with the same experiences and the same struggles regarding mental health, regarding being a person of color,” said Samantha Giles. Giles, a California teenager, is one of the Children’s Partnership’s youth panelists. “I even got to go into a breakout room where we talked about how our parents don’t necessarily recognize our mental health struggles and