Nearly 6,800 teenagers across the city signed up for New York City’s free mobile mental health services Treatment programs, NYC Teen SpaceCity officials announced Thursday that Brownsville, East New York and Canarsie have led the way in sign-ups since the program began last November. “The pandemic has been tough on all of us in terms of mental health, but especially tough on young people, who are seeing rising rates of anxiety and depression and are made especially difficult by the challenges of growing up in a social media world,” Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Ann Williams-Isom said in the release. About 80% of users are Black, Hispanic, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), mixed race or Native American, and 70% are women.
Mayor Eric Adams said the city also filed the lawsuit “to hold the companies that own the five social media platforms accountable for their harmful actions and to make appropriate investments to place approximately 500 social workers and psychologists in our schools.”
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Brooklyn, New York City’s most populous borough, is home to approximately 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were a city on its own, it would be the fourth largest in the U.S. In recent years, Brooklyn has become the epitome of “cool and hip,” but to the people who were born here, raised their families here, and have improved their community over the years, Brooklyn has never been an “uncool” place.
