Teen mental health already was deteriorating before the coronavirus pandemic. In the two years since, the isolation, grief and anxiety created by school closures, deaths and loss of family income have led to even steeper declines in children’s mental health, experts say. Awash in federal pandemic relief money — roughly $190 billion in education and health grants over the next four years — states are responding.

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Source: Stateline/PEW, April 18, 2022.