Mental health support service sees explosion in online traffic

One of the country's main support services for youth mental health has seen an explosion in online traffic since the Covid-19 outbreak here and warned of "hefty fallout" in the months to come.

Jigsaw Youth Mental Health suspended all face-to-face services on March 12 but its Director of Communications and Fundraising, Mike Mansfield, said since then there has been a 440% increase in traffic to its website to avail of new online services.