“Healthy out of the crisis” is the name of the package from the Ministry of Health, which is intended to cushion the effects of the corona pandemic on children and young people. Because eating and anxiety disorders are on the rise, more and more young people are suffering from depression. The ministry now wants to help those affected with 13 million euros. A one-time payment. But the money would be needed every year, said Upper Austria’s Youth Provincial Councilor Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer. “The psychological problems that the pandemic leaves in young people did not simply disappear when the pandemic ended. They last.”
In the State Youth Conference in Burgenland the representatives of the federal states now agreed on a unified approach. The 13 million are to be transferred to “permanent standard funding in order to ensure long-term needs-based access to psychotherapeutic places” is the last paragraph of their request to the federal government. Furthermore, the social security funds should also become active on this issue.
Source: Nachrichten
