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Sharing – How schools can support mental health in high-needs areas
ByMikeM April 16, 2026April 15, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

Schools in poor areas where students are likely to be dealing with instability at home and poverty all around them have different mental health needs than kids living in a wealthy suburb. Programs designed to help families in poverty should be part of school mental health programs. As I’ve said many times, you can’t meditate or exercise your way out of poverty. A full-service mental health program would recognize the impact that something like poverty has on kids.

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Sharing – Michigan kids in mental health crisis sent out of state as facilities close
ByMikeM April 7, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

It’s easy to talk about supporting mental health, but is it too much to ask that we fund the resources needed to provide that and allow them to exist in our neighborhoods?

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Sharing – National Poll: Parents Say Mental Health and Belonging Are as Vital to School Safety as Building Security
ByMikeM November 24, 2025November 23, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

It seems many parents want schools to do more in this space, which makes sense, because mental health issues only get worse when kids grow up without support.

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Sharing – Place Matters
ByMikeM July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The question isn’t just about making therapy available to more people, though that is important. It’s also about eliminating the environmental factors that cause harm to our mental health. Those will vary depending on where we live. What works in Louisiana is not what works in New York. What is needed here is different because the environment is different.

Most of all, can we even see the issues as they apply to different places? If we can’t see that, how do we see the problems faced by any individual?

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Sharing – Social media isn’t the only cause of mental health woes among Texas youth
ByMikeM January 29, 2025January 28, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Social media is easy to target, but it’s not likely the most effective change to make for the benefit of youth mental health. The others take more work and get fewer headlines, so here we are.

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Sharing – How Modern Culture Drowns Out Psychology’s Important Message
ByMikeM July 6, 2024July 5, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I suspect that he is on to something. It’s hard to create a community of people caring for one another when our workplaces demand constant availability, and our culture rewards people who are singularly focused on career or commercial success. This reminds me of something I wrote about early risers and their productivity a few years ago. I thought it was weird that in a profile of these “very successful” men, every one of them talked about getting up early to start working, planning out their days, sending emails to their team so they’d be waiting for them when they got to the office, etc.

What was missing from every single person interviewed in the story? There was no mention of a family. None of these men talked about having breakfast with a spouse, taking their kids to school, etc. None of them mentioned having friends. Their entire goal was to get a head start on work so they could get ahead. And here we were, writing glowing profiles and encouraging everyone to live like this.

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