Beneath the Surface

While growing up has never been easy, today's teens face a landscape that might be unrecognizable to their parents. In addition to cliques and peer pressure they live in a fast-changing social media world - Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook - that exposes and makes vulnerable as much as it shares and connects. Factor in high school and mass shootings, terrorism, daily reports about climate change, and the prospect of life-changing college loan debt and it's no wonder that rates of teen depression, anxiety, and, tragically, suicide are soaring.