With a nationwide psychiatrist shortage and diminished access to mental and behavioral health help, one school's community coordinator created "Healthy Island," a once empty room now dedicated to be a safe and therapeutic space for students. 

The University of Iowa is turning its student union hotel into a mental health center. North Carolina’s state colleges are expanding mental health and crisis services with about $8 million from Gov. Ray Cooper. Florida State University created a new course to train faculty and staff to spot and help students battling trauma. Community colleges are stepping up, too.

For students new to sixth grade, this year is especially turbulent as they learn to adjust to in-person learning as middle schoolers.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Some parents in Chelsea say the lack of safety in their schools is out of control. They claim even principals have asked the city for more school safety agents, but they told CBS2’s Lisa Rozner on Thursday their requests have been falling on deaf ears.

Lawmakers in New York are considering allowing students to take mental health days off from school to make emotional wellness a health priority.

Students and mental health professionals presented youth's perspective on the mental health crisis to educate groups and discuss mental well-being in the same context as physical wellness. 

Since 2019, Ignacio House has housed 15 “resident scholars” who study at N.Y. colleges and universities at a site in the Bronx. Last month, the community received permission from the Archdiocese of New York to move into its new home at the site of a one-time residence of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers in Manhattan.

Mayor Eric Adams recently announced that all New York City high school students will have access to mental health support through telehealth programs, an effort to address growing concerns about student well-being.