MindSite News Team

MindSite News, Ken Burns Presents and WETA present a live back-to-school event: A Conversation About Youth Mental Health and the Making of Hiding in Plain Sight

As students return to school after 2-1/2 years of pandemic stress and setbacks, concerns about the mental health of young people have never been greater. We invite you to join us for a MindSite News Live Interview focused on youth mental health. Our guests will be some of the people behind the brilliant new Ken Burns Presents documentary Hiding in Plain Sight.

Honoring Juneteenth…

Happy Juneteenth. MindSite News is taking the holiday off. We'll be back tomorrow.

It’s going to take a movement

Today, we are thrilled to publish an excerpt of Healing: Our Path From Mental Illness to Mental Health by our own Tom Insel. Also: Congressional hearings on protecting children in schools. A global report on intimate partner violence and an LA art show highlights social justice and mental health.

High school seniors struggle to catch up after pandemic remote learning

High school seniors are behind in their race for college after losing much of their in-school support system during quarantine.

New voices, new essays

Today we bring you a series of new Guest Essays as we build a platform for the sharing of ideas, perspectives, laments and solutions related to mental health and social justice.

If you’re not eco-anxious, you’re not paying attention

Grappling with eco-anxiety. This may be the existential issue for the world (and especially for members of Gen Z): Is the fate of our planet too grim and uncertain to bring children into it?

The ongoing abuse of school paddling; suicide prevention campaign aims at Muslims

The Unique Message of ‘Boys Will Be Bugs’

MindSite News Originals: All The Feels

The leads on a TV show about a soccer team go from the locker room to the couch.

Grief, interrogated, and the mental health message of Ted Lasso

The continued surge in demand for mental health services

MindSite Originals – Batsh*t Crazy