Author Archives: Hannah Furfaro

Hannah Furfaro covers mental health for The Seattle Times.
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Caught in Washington’s Youth Mental Health Disaster, a Teen with Nowhere to Go

by Hannah Furfaro Why you can trust MindSite News

Jack Hays, 17, is one of a surging number of Washington children facing mental health challenges so severe that they require hospital stays. Between 2015 and 2021, the total number of hospitalizations nearly doubled among youth whose primary diagnosis is psychiatric, an investigation by The Seattle Times found.

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