Roughly one in four American adolescents experience mental health challenges, yet new survey data show that rural students and students of color have more difficulty accessing help when compared to suburban and white students.
According to “Supporting the Mental Health Well-Being of High School Students,” a new report from ACT focusing on the results of a 2019 survey of ACT test-takers, students of color were less likely than white students to say that they could reach out to a teacher or counselor if they needed mental health support (48% of African American students compared to 57% of white students).Additionally, rural students reported less access to basic school-based mental health services compared to students in suburban or urban locations. Seventy-one percent of suburban students, compared to only 65% of rural students, said they could access a school-based professional to talk about certain mental health issues.
Approximately 5,300 students who took the ACT in 2019 responded to the questions about their perceptions of available school-based mental health support.
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