Some encouraging news: The Pew Trusts has been exploring the growing mental health problems among kids and reports that many school systems are trying to beef up their psychological support "not just for children with learning disabilities and diagnosed mental health conditions, but for all students.” Discussing specific developments, the report attributes the children's emotional problems to COVID, but it's encouraging to know that kids' anxiety about climate change will benefit from the same expansion of mental health services.
"Adults keep saying: 'We owe it to the young peope to give them hope.'
But I don't want your hope.
I don't want you to be hopeful.
I want you to panic.
I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
And then I want you to act.
I want you to act as you would in a crisis.
I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
Because it is" Greta Thunberg
Another approach to relieving kids' anxiety, a special video game: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/technology/personaltech/depression-anxiety-video-games.html
And here are six more: https://pixelkin.org/2014/08/21/6-games-that-address-grief-loss-and-depression
Some encouraging news: The Pew Trusts has been exploring the growing mental health problems among kids and reports that many school systems are trying to beef up their psychological support "not just for children with learning disabilities and diagnosed mental health conditions, but for all students.” Discussing specific developments, the report attributes the children's emotional problems to COVID, but it's encouraging to know that kids' anxiety about climate change will benefit from the same expansion of mental health services.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2021/11/08/covid-harmed-kids-mental-health-and-schools-are-feeling-it