Firearm-related deaths are having a significant impact on young people’s mental health, with guns being the leading cause of death amongst children and teens in 2020.
gun violence has replaced the decades-long history of motor vehicle crashes being the leading cause of death among youth people, as of 2017 — as a result of auto-safety improvements, and increasing numbers of guns in homes across the country.In 2020, the murder rate with handguns was the highest in 25 years, with over 10,000 gun-related deaths of children and adults younger than 24 years old — compared to more than 7,900 in 2019.And it has a significant impact on young people’s mental health.
“From the youth, we’re just hearing this idea that they’re living with embedded trauma and it’s something that they constantly face,” McGill said. “And I think in some cases adults don’t think about it.”and a freshman at Malcolm X College, said witnessing gun violence in his community sometimes made him want to “give up on himself.”
As a mentor with BUILD, a violence prevention organization, Young is going into different communities and schools in Chicago to help young people through trauma and get access to the support they need.and a senior at YCCS West who will be attending Wilbur Wright College in the fall. She also does outreach work with students about mental health.
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