Mandated Mental Health Screenings

This brief examines the historical and systemic barriers to early mental health detection and proposes the implementation of mandatory annual mental health screenings during routine pediatric visits, using validated clinical tools such as the PHQ-A and GAD-7.

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Avery Lind

July 21, 2026

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Inquiry-driven, this project may reflect personal views, aiming to enrich problem-related discourse.

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Vaping and Youth: Unmasking the Advertising Epidemic Targeting America’s Adolescents

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Mia Chen

This capstone highlights how vaping impacts the youth. In addition it unmasks the advertising that is used to target America's adolescents.

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Other Fellowship Capstones

Teaching the Climate Crisis: Integrating Climate Literacy into General Education Requirements.

Education or Incarceration? How School Discipline Fuels the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Vaping and Youth: Unmasking the Advertising Epidemic Targeting America’s Adolescents