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Watching your 13-year old child struggle with anxiety and depression is heartbreaking for any parent. Even before the pandemic, our family spent hours running from numerous mental health appointments to psychiatric emergency rooms, trying desperately to get my daughter the help she needed. Unfortunately, like countless children across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on my child’s mental health. Sadly, she is not alone.

BluePrint Geneva will receive $44,000 in federal funds to help combat food insecurity in the Finger Lakes. The money will be used to create a community kitchen and storefront location in Geneva to increase accessibility of fresh, healthy foods to underserved neighborhoods.

More than ever, people struggling with substance use disorder need to know there are places they can go for immediate help – free of judgment and criminal implications. That’s why Genesee County’s Public Safety Assisted Addiction & Recovery Initiative locations are so important. This month marks the second anniversary of the opening of the PAARI site at the City of Batavia Fire Department – a significant event as the department is the first from New York State to participate in PAARI and one of only a few fire companies in a network of more than 600 police and public safety agencies in 34 states.

SOAR, a community health grant, is concerned with the physical, mental, economic and social health of area residents. As wonderful as the holidays are, for some they can be a more difficult time — and during a pandemic it’s all about the “Plan B.”

The Children’s Institute has a new vehicle for its Get Ready to GROW program. The GROW Bus will help provide developmental screening for children throughout the Rochester-Finger Lakes region.

The death of Daniel Prude after city police restrained him has brought a national spotlight on racial disparities in local policing and healthcare. Panelists discuss the root causes of those issues, and actions that should be taken to create systemic change.

The YMCA of Greater Rochester reveled the YMCA Center for Equity at Lewis Street. The goal of the center is to increase student achievement and empower young people to make positive change in their lives and community.

A live forum exploring how disparities in health care and society experienced by people with disabilities have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Answering your questions about how the economy reopens and restarts safely in Rochester and the Finger Lakes in the time of COVID-19.