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Even as new school shootings draw focus, much of the work being done to increase student safety isn’t coming from Richmond. It’s happening on college campuses.

As students return to school, educators will be on standby to spot any signs of physical, mental or emotional stress a child may display when they come back to the classroom.

As investigators in Texas work on the timeline of what led to a deadly shooting at an elementary school, parents and families across the country are dealing with the aftermath.

About 22% of Virginia children between the ages of five and 11 have received at least one vaccine since the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) approved the vaccine for those children earlier this month.

Emily Rynearson never imagined she’d be taking part in a student-led protest at her Hanover County school in response to mental health concerns.

After losing her father, doctor helps children deal with loss amid COVID The Lancet and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported at least 113,000 U.S. children were struggling with ‘pandemic grief’ after losing a parent or caregiver to COVID. and last updated 2021-07-23 23:52:12-04 RICHMOND, Va. -- A VCU Health Psychiatrist has taken the loss she experienced as a child and used it to understand the impact of grief and loss on children, something more than a million chi...