Mental health and obesity, along with math and reading, are issues facing kids returning to school: study

Children need to worry about more than math and reading when they return to school Tuesday, as many are grappling with serious issues such as mental illness and poverty, says a national study being released today.
“A nation cannot prosper if it fails to invest in its children,” says the Raising Canada report, a study conducted by the University of Calgary’s O’Brien Institute for Public Health for the non-profit group Children First Canada.
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