Category: Mental Health & Well-Being

How Student Debt Harms Black Borrowers’ Mental Health

files July 28, 2022 by Victoria Jackson, Jalil B. Mustaffa, Ph.D.

Approximately 45 million Americans carry $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, but the financial challenges facing Black borrowers are…

Preventing Suicide Amid a Pandemic

article-cropped September 27, 2021 by Nancy Duchesneau

As if the deaths of nearly 700,000 Americans from COVID-19 weren’t depressing enough, the past two years have wreaked havoc on surviving Americans’ mental health. Most at risk? Young people…

The Education Trust in Texas Public Comments on Proposed Rule Regarding the Safe and Supportive Schools Program and Trauma-Informed Care Policy Training

October 12, 2020 by Jonathan Feinstein

Mike Morath Commissioner of Education Texas Education Agency 1701 North Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78701-1494 Download the Full Comments Dear Commissioner Morath: Thank you for the opportunity to comment on…

Joint Testimony By Education, Criminal Justice Reform, and Civil Rights Advocates to Texas House Public Education Committee on Interim Charge 1(F) of SB 11

September 30, 2020 by EdTrust

SUBMITTED BY Alycia Castillo, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition Jonathan Feinstein, The Education Trust in Texas Andrew Hairston, Texas Appleseed Chloe Latham Sikes, IDRA Ana Ramón, IDRA ENDORSED BY Teach Plus…