With drastic changes that have impacted their everyday lives, members of our youthful generation are finding it difficult to work without the stability provided by a typical school day. Isolation and lack of peer support are causing the youth to miss out on opportunities to interact with their peers and classmates — increasing the need for visual and physical connection.

The month of May is Mental Health Awareness month. It’s something very common, especially during the pandemic, and it’s also treatable.

Dr. Lisa Durette, Assistant Professor and Fellowship Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UNLV, said the isolation of distance learning has had a clear impact on the children she has seen in recent months, as well as adults

Since schools shut down in March, Clark County School District’s early-warning system, which monitors students’ mental health episodes, has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, according to a recent story in The New York Times. That has prompted CCSD to hasten the return of in-person learning for some elementary school grades.

Like many couples around the valley, Tony and Tabitha Scott found themselves unemployed last March when the lockdown began. But as the months went by, and distance learning dragged on in Clark County Schools, they say they saw an opportunity to make their dreams a reality and use their backgrounds in fitness to help youth, and Glitch Fitness was born.

As the campaign season ends and the holiday season nears, many households are bracing for a few lively political discussions during family gatherings, albeit smaller ones.

According to a growing number of experts, the seven months of lockdowns, quarantine, and distance learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a growing toll on the emotional well-being of many children.

When the first cases of COVID-19 started popping up around the United States, the number of infected children was low.