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More than a third of US schools don’t have a single nurse on-site – despite record rates of disease and mental health problems in students

It comes as America is dealing with high rates of chronic illnesses among K-12 students, including diabetes and asthma, plus record rates of mental health issues, which evidence suggests were exacerbated by school closures during the Covid pandemic.

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Unaccompanied migrant children are navigating the bowels of the city’s subway system and trains to peddle candies to strangers.

On Wednesday, an 11-year-old migrant girl exited an uptown B train at the 59th Street-Columbus Circle station all on her own, carrying a cardboard box filled with peanut M&M’s, Skittles, and Kinder Buenos for sale.

“My mother is on the other side,” the child told The Post in Spanish, before running off solo to tug at riders’ jackets and pant legs and offer treats for $2 a pop.

The mom, who had been selling goodies on the downtown platform, did not say where she and her daughter were from or staying and declined to speak further.

Last week, a young girl in a purple jacket was spotted toting a box full of candy while traveling alone between subway cars aboard a C train, according to footage shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The child had been spotted repeatedly selling candy, usually between the 14th and 59th street stations during rush hour, and was believed to be 6 years old, according to the video’s poster.

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Raven exists to transform our nation’s response to child exploitation.

As the first and only 501(c)4 group focused on child exploitation in the United States, we work with lawmakers, advocates, agencies, and organizations who are willing to challenge the status quo and fight to protect our most vulnerable citizens.

Raven will lobby for law and policy changes to better protect children and bring perpetrators to justice. The discrepancies in state laws often mean perpetrators are not held accountable, leaving them to continue to exploit children.

CAMP HILL, Pa. —A new coffee shop is being built in Camp Hill, Cumberland County, but with a twist. What used to be a hair salon will now be a coffee shop that will employ survivors of sex trafficking. The organization that is helping put this together is trying to transform this building into a welcoming space for all to gather and listen. To some, this future shop will be a place to get a delicious cup of coffee, but to others, it’s a new beginning.

“Our coffee shop, we will have survivors of the commercial sex industry working here, but we’ll also have support people with them,” said Patty Seaman of Peace Promise.

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An average of 20 people are physically abused by intimate partners every minute. This equates to more than 10 million abuse victims annually. 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been physically abused by an intimate partner, and 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have been severely physically abused by an intimate partner. Millions of Americans live in daily, silent fear within their own homes. In addition, every year millions of children are exposed to domestic violence. Domestic violence incidents affect every person within a home and can have long-lasting negative effects on children’s emotional well-being, and social and academic functioning. Keep kids safe

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An elementary school teacher, a college professor and a pair of U.S. Air Force members are among 160 people charged in a statewide human trafficking crackdown in Ohio, the state’s top prosecutor said Tuesday.

In addition to the arrests, “Operation Buyer’s Remorse” identified more than 100 human trafficking survivors, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced in a news release. The arrests began Sept. 25 and lasted through Saturday. They took place in “every corner of the state” including in and around Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, Youngstown, Marietta and Portsmouth.

It was “a concerted effort to stem the demand that fuels human trafficking,” Yost said, pointing to the involvement of nearly 100 law enforcement agencies and human service organizations across the Buckeye State. The attorney general’s Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission led the operation.

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Mobile phone use should be banned in schools across England to improve behaviour, the Education Secretary Gillian Keegan announced today.

New guidance from the Department for Education will back head teachers in banning mobile phone use throughout the school day, including at break times, to tackle disruptive behaviour and online bullying while boosting attention during lessons. It aims to support the wider work the government is doing to raise standards in schools by increasing students’ focus and reducing distractions.

This ban supports the hard work of teachers and education staff – and continues to build on government’s reforms backed up by the highest level of funding for schools in history, in real terms, of nearly £60 billion by 2024-25.

The move will bring England in line with other countries that have already implemented a ban, including France, Italy and Portugal. It follows warnings from the United Nations on the risks of smartphones in schools and government data that found around a third (29%) of secondary school pupils reported mobile phones being used when they were not supposed to in most, or all, lessons.

If schools fail to implement the new guidance, the government will consider legislating in the future to make the guidance statutory.

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MOREAU — State Police, with assistance from the FBI, are looking for 9-year-old Charlotte Sena, who disappeared Saturday night while riding her bike in Moreau Lake State Park.

On Sunday morning State Police issued an Amber Alert for Charlotte, a fourth-grader at Corinth schools who lives in Greenfield, with the alert saying she was abducted at around 6:45 p.m. Saturday while on a camping trip with family.

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