Cartwheel, a startup that partners with school districts to provide virtual mental health services, raised $20 million in Series A funds. The company is working with about 50 school districts and charter school networks across Massachusetts, Illinois, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

A study on BeMe Health, a behavioral health platform for teens, found that users engaged with the platform eight times on average over a month. The study was done in collaboration with Stanford University.

Daybreak Health — a startup that partners with school districts to provide children with virtual mental health services — recently closed a $13 million Series B funding round. The company has partnered with more than 60 public school districts since it began providing care in 2019.

Spring Health’s Family Care solution now serves kids of all ages and their parents. It connects each family with a care navigator and offers a dashboard that allows parents and caregivers to track their child’s care.

The best approach to addressing this shortage of behavioral health professionals is more widespread adoption of virtual mental healthcare, a method of care delivery that is particularly appealing to college students.

Each year, nonprofit ECRI creates a list of the industry’s top ten patient safety concerns. This year, the pediatric mental health crisis topped the list, above other important issues like violence against healthcare staff and clinicians being expected to work outside their scope of practice.

UNC Health has partnered with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to open a new inpatient psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents. The partners came together because action is desperately needed to increase access to youth mental health services — research has found a significant link between the country’s shortage of mental health professionals and its rise in youth suicides.

Fort Health, a new startup built at Redesign Health, recently launched as a provider of mental healthcare services for children. The company has developed a telehealth-based mental health clinic that partners with pediatricians for referrals and health plans for coverage.

Suicide-related diagnoses in children and adolescents increased 14% since before the pandemic, a new Evernorth analysis shows. Female and Asian/Pacific Islander youth are especially struggling.

In order to provide quality pediatric care, children’s hospitals need more government support, Children’s Hospital Association CEO Mark Wietecha argued in a recent letter to Congress. He recommended Congress enact 12-month continuous eligibility for children covered by Medicaid or CHIP, allocate more money to pediatric physician training, and enhance Medicaid’s low reimbursement rates for pediatric care.

Mental health-related emergency department visits and inpatient hospital admissions have been rising among U.S. children from 2016-21, according to new research. The report unveiled significant mental health utilization disparities between children covered by Medicaid and commercial insurance plans.

Brightline, a telehealth company that provides pediatric mental health care, received a $10 million investment from Northwell Health. The startup will use the funds to scale its platform, as well as pursue a strategic partnership in which Northwell’s patients receive in-network care on its platform.

Preventia and LifeOmic partnered to create the free LIFE Extend app to serve mental health needs of Butler University students. It not only connects them to online therapists, but also helps students track their sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness.

The company’s digital on-demand platform, Connect, along with its coaching programs and clinical services—which include behavioral therapy, evaluation, medication support and speech therapy—are now available in all 50 states

The company rolled out new programs, content, interactive tools and videos aimed at addressing family mental health. The offerings seek to fill in gaps in mental healthcare to ensure children and parents get the help they need.

For too long, we’ve forced kids to make do with services made for adults. The results have been nothing less than tragic, as evidenced by today’s pediatric behavioral health crisis.