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A year ago, I wrote “The Next Pandemic: Mental Health” for National Mental Health Month, published in May 2020 in EdSurge. We were two months into the pandemic in America and already early signs of a mental health crisis were emerging from isolation and trauma. It is now time to update this piece for 2021. Because the reality is that we are not only experiencing a mental health pandemic; we now have a three-headed learning crisis consisting of mental health, empathy and creativity. Our children are growing in precisely the opposite direction. They are less mentally healthy, less emp...

NJ Governor Phil Murphy on Friday signed A3548 into law.

Replies(155) (Gov. Murphy photo) NEW JERSEY – Gov. Murphy has signed seven New Jersey bills into law, one of which addresses mental health issues amid the COVID pandemic (see list below). Murphy this week signed A3548 into law, which will require private insurers, the State Health Benefit Plan, and School Employees' Health Benefits Program to put into place policies and procedures to ensure coverage of expenses in mental health screening of a major depressive disorder for adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18. Murphy also signed the Healthy Terminals Act (S989) which creates new minim...