Call to Mind Live: How Child Poverty Shapes Mental Health
May 4, 2021
On May 5 as part of KERA’s On Our Minds initiative, Syeda Hasan hosts Call to Mind Live: How Child Poverty Shapes Mental Health, a Well Beings Virtual Tour Event.
Community members and experts explore how the mental health of children and teens is affected by poverty. When basic needs aren’t met, what happens to well-being? How are low-income kids in Texas faring during the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst economic disaster in recent memory? And how does economic insecurity during childhood inform decision making into adulthood? We'll explore all this and more during a free in-depth, live virtual discussion.
Register now and join Call to Mind for this FREE online event in collaboration with KERA Wednesday, May 5 at 12 noon CT.
'It made my heart broke': Marshall first-graders, parents grieve loss of classmate to COVID-19
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Six-year-old Jase Nelson and his mom, Michelle, sat down together this week to look at a class picture from kindergarten last year. Jase wanted to remember one classmate in particular.
“I played with her last year,” the now-first grader at Marshall’s Park Side Elementary School said. “At recess, she will want to play tag or she would want to play with me. She was a little shy. She would like to take pictures.”
It was a bittersweet memory that left Jase crying, and Michelle trying to help comfort her child through her own grief.
“She had lots of friends,” Jase said. “She would be nice.”
Last Sunday, Jase’s kindergarten classmate — a little girl, 6 years old like him — died from complications of COVID-19.
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