When I retired from leading River School in 2014, later that school year there were two teen suicides in NVUSD in the space of eight days, an 8th-grade boy and a 10th grader. Those deaths shook me and, with Jeni Olsen, we started Village Napa, an advocacy group, to support the mental, social, and emotional well-being of young people. In the research Iâve done since then, Iâve discovered that suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents, among college students, and that 50% of millennials and 75% of Gen Zers have left their jobs due to mental health reasons.
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The Napa Valley Unified School District is one of fewer than 100 school districts with K-12 campuses open for hybrid in-person instruction while remaining committed to distance learning. (Shutterstock)
NAPA VALLEY, CA While Napa Valley Unified School District students starting attending in-person classes in cohorts two days a week when the district moved to Phase Two of its four-phase reopening plan in late October, the district does not have a firm start date for Phase Three.
The third phase involves a hybrid of distance learning at home and in-person learning five days a week in morning and afternoon cohorts, while Phase Four is a full reopening with in-person classes five days a week.