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CLASP's youth and young adult mental health framework calls for policies that increase access to healing, transformative mental health supports for this population.
As a nation, we have underinvested in the health and wellbeing of Black communities, while we’ve overinvested in systems that enact violence on these communities. To protect Black lives and heal Black communities, we must divest from the police and invest in Black communities.
We must do more to protect vulnerable youth and young adults including those without insurance from the COVID-19 pandemic. Aggressively implementing and expanding presumptive eligibility for Medicaid represents a promising strategy.
Making equitable gains in preventing ACEs requires intervening at the structural level to address systemic racism and oppression.
Today, as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether to uphold an injunction blocking the Trump Administration’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, we reflect on what citizenship means in absence of papers.