Can TN handle the youth mental health crisis?
Tennessee's kids are facing a deepening mental health crisis.
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Tennessee's kids are facing a deepening mental health crisis.
Two years after the Tennessee Legislature created a $250 million trust fund for children's mental health, no earnings from the fund have been spent,
Two years after Tennessee passed a law to make a one-time, $250 million investment in mental health services for school-age children, plans on how to spend earnings from the trust fund are still being made. Any mental health expenditures won't take place until the 2024-25 fiscal year.
The data and parents agree: an extreme risk law can save lives and should be put into place this legislative session.
Doctors have made a Declaration of a National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health.