Another South Auckland outbreak of Covid has community support workers concerned about the impact it's having on the mental health of its young people. "When they talk on the news, they talk in an adult way, and kids don't really understand what they're saying. Elnez Tofa is a community support worker for Counties Manukau District Health Board. She says there's an overload of information about Covid, and so it's important families keep talking through what's happening. Any one-off session or programme doesn't really have an impact, but having an ongoing focus on wellbeing works really well for the school."

Source: New Zealand Herald February 19, 2021 21:10 UTC