youth mental health

City efforts to address youth mental health challenges have reached thousands of Boston’s young people, according to the Boston Public Health Commission.

Resilience alone cannot address the mounting mental health challenges facing our young people. These struggles reveal the need for a fundamental shift in how we approach mental health — not as an isolated issue but as one deeply connected to the environments and realities that shape their lives.

As evening fell on Dec. 5, over a hundred Boston teens packed into a warmly lit space down the block from Boston City Hall.