New reporting shows autistic kids are arriving at emergency departments with suicidal thoughts at startlingly young ages — some as young as eight. The piece details how emergency teams are seeing more crises and struggling to provide autism-informed mental health care; for families and clinicians this isn't an abstract trend, it's a shift in who needs immediate, specialized support. Read the full reporting to understand what hospitals are encountering and why early assessment and tailored responses matter: Autistic children come to A&E in mental-health crisis. This forces a hard look at training, pediatric suicide screening, and how services for autism and suicide prevention intersect.

A new study links later school start times to improvements in students' mental-health measures, suggesting schedule shifts can be a low-tech way to help overwhelmed young people; more here: Do later school start times help?

Documents reveal Meta discussed a 'whisper' strategy against Jonathan Haidt while handling debates on social media and mental health — a reminder of how platform decisions shape public conversations: Meta and the Haidt files

Research finds most teens who tried AI for emotional support still wanted additional help from people or services, raising questions about where chatbots fit in a care plan: Teens, AI, and unmet needs