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New Colorado survey shows COVID-19 youth mental health effects with an increase in depression
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – After gathering information in the course of the fall of final yr, The Colorado Division of Public Well being and Setting has launched the outcomes for the most recent Wholesome Youngsters Colorado Survey. The final time the survey was performed was in 2019, and psychological well being points have worsened in comparison with earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic.
Based on the survey, 40% of youth skilled emotions of despair up to now yr, up from 35% in 2019. Moreover, 51% of youth felt every day stress extra typically in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Suicide charges had been additionally increased amongst youth who’re transgender, homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, non-binary, or multi-racial.
Nonetheless, based on the survey, substance abuse has decreased.
“What we discovered is that extra youth are experiencing emotions of despair greater than ever earlier than. We additionally discovered a steep decline in substance use,” says Emily Positive, the Faculty and Youth Supervisor for the state well being division. “I’d suppose that there’s one thing associated to the pandemic that persists with these outcomes that we’re seeing”
The state well being division attributes the lower in substance abuse to the youth of Colorado discovering substances much less obtainable, but in addition extra dangerous.
“The excellent news is that youth suppose that utilizing these substances is extra dangerous than ever earlier than, that they’d be harmed by these substances,” states Positive.
Stacey Jenkins, the director for an nameless reporting company Safe2Tell, additionally highlighted one other concern the pandemic offered: a lower in reporting.
“The largest affect from the pandemic was a lower in suggestions. And that’s typical when college students aren’t within the faculty constructing,” Jenkins says. “So in the course of the pandemic when college students had been engaged in distant studying, we noticed our tip quantity fall by 45%”
Safe2Tell urges the general public to at all times err on the facet of reporting to a trusted grownup after they or a good friend are experiencing points with psychological well being, substance abuse and parental neglect, amongst different doable risks.
Assets to report an individual in want of assist can be found by clicking right here.
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Colorado funeral home owners plead guilty to corpse abuse after nearly 200 bodies found decomposing
The owners of a Colorado funeral home accused of piling hundreds of bodies in room-temperature conditions inside a dilapidated building and giving loved ones concrete instead of ashes have pleaded guilty to corpse abuse.
Jon and Carie Hallford, who own the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty to 191 counts of abuse of a corpse on Friday.
“The bodies were [lying] on the ground, stacked on shelves, left on gurneys, stacked on top of each other or just piled in rooms,” prosecutor Rachael Powell said in court.
Their loved ones are “intensely and forever outraged,” she added. Some of the families were in the courtroom when they pleaded guilty.
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Jon and Carie Hallford, who own the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty to 191 counts of abuse of a corpse on Friday. (Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)
Crystina Page, whose son died in 2019, said outside the courtroom on Friday: “He laid in the corner of an inoperable fridge, dumped out of his body bag with rats and maggots eating his face for four years. Now every moment that I think of my son, I’m having to think of Jon and Carie, and that’s not going away.”
The Hallfords also faced charges of theft, money laundering and forgery, which were dismissed with their plea deals.
The couple spent $882,300 in COVID relief funds on things like vacations, cosmetic surgery, car and tuition for their child.
Jon Hallford could serve 20 years in prison under the plea deal and Carie Hallford could serve 15 to 20 years.
Six people who objected to the plea deals, calling their recommended sentences insufficient, will get a chance to speak before they’re sentenced in April.
Fremont County deputies guard the road leading to the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Oct. 5, 2023. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP/The Gazette via AP)
MOURNING LOVED ONES TARGETED BY ‘DESPICABLE’ FUNERAL HOME SCAM
If the judge rejects the plea deal, the case may still go to trial.
The Hallfords already pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in October in connection with their misuse of funds.
The accusations go back to 2019 and the improperly stored bodies were discovered after neighbors reported a stench coming from the building.
A hearse and debris can be seen at the rear of the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colo., Oct. 5, 2023. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)
Authorities in hazmat gear found bodies stacked on top of each other, some so decayed they couldn’t be identified, and the place was infested with bugs.
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Following the gruesome discovery, Colorado has tightened funeral home regulations.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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