Kristen Valle, a candidate in the Nov. 8 election for the Newport-Mesa Unified’s Board of Education, is calling on the entire community to invest in its children.
Valle, 34, a sales and marketing professional who currently works for a healthcare organization, told The Epoch Times she noticed an increase in anxiety and depression among children over the past few years.
When her 16-year-old neighbor committed suicide, Valle said that’s when she decided to investigate the source of rising depression and anxiety among the younger generation.
(Courtesy of Kristen Valle)
“In our community and across the country, there are so many kids that are depressed and anxious. Kids right now are on antidepressants more than ever before and they’re committing suicide at alarming rates,” she said. “And I thought, ‘that’s not normal, what is causing something like this,’ and I started digging to find out.”…