Adolescents across the country have increasingly suffered from anxiety and depression over the last 10 years, and school officials in Prince George’s County noticed the same trend locally.
So when the county’s public school system needed to support its struggling students, it did what schools and young people across the nation are doing — it turned to an online service.
Funded by the statewide effort to bolster youth mental health, the county partnered with Hazel Health, which specializes in providing online counseling to school-age children…