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- ADVERTISEMENT - The bi-weekly podcast titled “In My Backyard” is led by the nonprofit’s CEO, Patricia Costales, who will speak with experts about causes of emotional distress in children and how to address them in a healthy, safe way. “With everything that has happened this past year, the COVID-19 pandemic and racial uprising, I wanted an outlet where I could speak with other experts about how these issues impact the mental health of our children and families,” Costales said on the podcast’s website. Two episodes of the podcast are already available for listening online. In the first, “Children’s Mental Health” Costales talks with Guidance Center clinical social worker, Mickey Prince, about the struggles the children have faced and the impact the pandemic is having on them. ....
- ADVERTISEMENT - Many of them were trapped at home with their abusers. Their stories were similar. “The money stopped and there was no place for them to go and they were around each other all day and it just blew up,” Lockwood said. “That’s what we heard from a lot of the women.” Some of Long Beach’s domestic violence shelters and mental health organizations said they saw an increase in need last year in the pandemic, but they fear that more abuse likely went unreported as victims were unable to get away from their abusers to call for help during lockdown. ....