Community Dissemination

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2025     Video Summary of Our Recent Work on Supporting How Kids Think and Learn Through Community Resources 

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 We prepared a video summarizing the findings of our most recent study, showing that community education supports could be particularly beneficial for youth from the most disadvantaged communities:

 

🔗 https://youtu.be/dpGkdPkPiSw

 

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2025    Our Study Featured in the Bay State Banner

 

I led a recent study analyzing data from nearly 30,000 Massachusetts middle and high school students, looking at how school mental health staffing relates to student well-being. The data were collected by Dr. Randi Schuster and her team at the Mass General Center for School Behavioral Health, which conducts statewide school mental health surveys. Dr. Schuster also served as senior author on the paper.

The study was cited in the Bay State Banner’s coverage of Boston’s youth mental health initiative. We found that schools with more mental health staff helped buffer the negative effects of neighborhood adversity. Students in these schools reported fewer symptoms of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and substance use. These results support efforts to expand access to school-based mental health professionals.

🔗 Read the article
🔗 Press release from Mass General Brigham

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2025     Massachusetts General Hospital Press Release, More Staff Addressing Mental Health in Schools Buffers Toll of Growing Up in Disadvantaged Communities 

🔗 https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/higher-school-mental-health-staff-ratio-buffers-students-adversity-risks

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2023     Schizophrenia International Research Society Blog Post explaining why neighborhoods and environments are necessary to understand from the perspective of informing risk for psychosis spectrum disorders

🔗https://schizophreniaresearchsociety.org/teresa-vargas-northwestern-university/

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2023     Invited Speaker: Neighborhoods and Mental Health: Effects on Psychosis Risk

14th Annual Schizophrenia Education Day

🔗https://www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/about/patient-education/schizophrenia

🔗https://vimeo.com/891633349/c826e96207

Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, Boston MA

The Department of Psychiatry's annual Schizophrenia Education Day presents new research findings and important clinical topics for patients with schizophrenia and their families. Clinicians share their vision of modern psychiatric treatment that is preventive, patient-centered and oriented toward recovery and physical health.

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