Ben Bragdon: For their sake, we’ve got to let kids be kids

Commentary: We must continue to strengthen mental health services for Maine’s kids

Don’t allow our youth experiencing behavioral and mental health crises to continue to languish in emergency rooms and jails.

Commentary: For parents, August is the Sunday of the year. I’m leaning in.

Braced for the onslaught of school and after-school scheduling, I’m reminding myself that I’ll look back on this daily grind someday and miss it.

More teen workers in Maine are getting hurt on the job

Maine's Department of Labor says Maine's tight labor market is pushing more businesses to hire teens, partly accounting for an increase in workplace violations that have included injuries.

F.D. Flam: The spike in child mortality won’t go away on its own

Commentary: School-based clinicians on front lines of youth mental health crisis

Through direct school-based behavioral health services, Maine students are able to learn coping and regulation skills. Those skills are needed more than ever.

Commentary: Maine is an outlier for youth psychiatric treatment

L.D. 181 would require DHHS to eliminate the barriers to providing residential treatment for Maine young people closer to home.

Our View: Give young psychiatric patients somewhere to go

Legislating for new mental health facilities may not sit well with everyone. We should be far more uncomfortable with the alternative: leaving vulnerable young Mainers hanging in the balance.

Commentary: Maine’s girls and nonbinary youth deserve to be listened to

Young people can themselves steer our state through the youth mental health crisis – providing they have our full attention and our support.

Commentary: Make sure that young people in your Maine community know they matter

Notice them, show interest in their lives, listen to what they say and prioritize what they have to contribute. Let’s all push back against a youth mental health crisis.