NYC Brings Online Therapy to Teenagers
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Ashwin Vasan, MD, PhD, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene introduces a new program that will offer online therapy to New York City teens, and other health-related news.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on W.N.C. The New York City Health and Mental Hygiene |
| 0:14.8 | Commissioner Dr Ashwin Vassen is going to join us now. He'll speak mostly |
| 0:19.8 | about a new free mental health resource available to all New York City teenagers that is all New York City residents ages 13 to 17. |
| 0:30.0 | If you need a reminder about the state of teen mental health nationwide, we've reported on this show that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and adolescent psychiatry, and the Children's Hospital Association collectively |
| 0:45.7 | declared child and adolescent mental health to be a national emergency. |
| 0:51.0 | And in March, the CDC published findings that the mental health of children and teenagers |
| 0:56.8 | has been on a decline over the last decade, not just during the pandemic. |
| 1:01.4 | And right now there are new teen mental health stressors, including for the many the uprooted from their old homes and often feeling unwelcome in their new |
| 1:15.4 | and the war in the Middle East with the big Jewish and Israeli and Arab and Muslim |
| 1:20.3 | populations here feeling it somewhat, or just getting moved and |
| 1:24.7 | challenged by just seeing it in the media. |
| 1:27.7 | It's all important context as the city announces a partnership with the Telehealth |
| 1:32.3 | company Talk Space to launch |
| 1:34.8 | Teen Space, a 26 million dollar pilot program aimed at providing counseling |
| 1:41.2 | support for teens with signs of depression, anxiety, or other mental health struggles. |
| 1:46.8 | Again, this is for New York City residents ages 13 through 17. So let's talk about this and more with Dr. Ashwin Vassen, New York City |
| 1:57.0 | Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene. Dr Vassen, always great to have you on. Welcome |
| 2:01.1 | back to WNYC. |
| 2:02.3 | Thanks for having me, Brian. Happy holidays. Great to have you on welcome back to WNYC. |
| 2:03.2 | Thanks for having me Brian happy holidays to you and what do you want |
| 2:07.7 | listeners to know right off the bat about teen space? |
| 2:11.4 | Well I think your lead in was was correct We're in a teen mental health crisis. It started, if you really look at the data, it started about a decade ago, but then the pandemic made things measurably worse. In 2019, over a third of New York City |
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