Metro columnist Sharon Grigsby writes:
As the coronavirus crisis drags into another month, an Oak Cliff-based
nonprofit that’s long been devoted to healing the social-emotional wounds of
children and their families can sense the pandemic ratcheting up pressure to
the rupturing point:
A job stripped away from a mother already struggling to feed her kids. An
adolescent’s faltering foothold on stability as tensions turn to blows between
his parents. The zombie-like shutting down of a 5-year-old after a family
member’s coronavirus death.
The staff of the Momentous Institute already hears the low roar of an
approaching mental health crisis, especially within those communities that lack the access to resources
that the rest of us take for granted.
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