The Mercury News – Sharon Noguchi
“In a potential crisis crossing demographic lines, one-third of California’s 11th-graders and one-quarter of seventh-graders reported feeling chronically sad or hopeless over the past 12 months, a survey released Monday showed. The California Healthy Kids Survey also found that about 19 percent of both ninth-graders and 11th-graders seriously considered attempting suicide. When it comes to depression and anxiety among high school students, the trend “is not moving in the right direction,” said Anne Ehresman, executive director of Project Cornerstone, which focuses on building child-supporting communities and runs programs in more than 200 schools in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.”(more)