By Nick Green, Press-Telegram, October 7, 2019
A fast- emerging youth mental health crisis linked to excessive screen time, loneliness and social media addiction has prompted a Torrance and Long Beach nonprofit group to create a program aimed at countering escalating rates of anxiety and depression caused by the pursuit of an Instagram-like culture of online perfection.
Indeed, The Volunteer Center South Bay-Harbor-Long Beach realized when angst-riven youth reach adulthood, they may not be the sort of community-oriented, committed local activists that are the nonprofit world’s best and most basic resource.
So, spearheaded by President/CEO Sara Myers, the group has spent the past three years refocusing the nonprofit’s basic goals, conducting focus groups and performing research to try to understand what is contributing to the rising mental health toll among the young. It even adopted a new mission statement with the aim of increasing social and emotional wellness.
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