There are not enough mental health care providers in Marathon County to help all the students who could be treated in schools.
But this fall a new, grassroots collaboration will start to put more counselors in schools to help improve kids' mental health.
Lee Shipway, a social worker and co-executive director at Peaceful Solutions Counseling in Wausau, realized the need last year after she sent a therapist into the Edgar School District. Edgar officials decided students needed someone on site because they were missing school and their parents were missing work for therapy appointments, Shipway said.
[For more of this story, written by Nora G. Hertel, go to http://www.wausaudailyherald.c...eeds-rise/442541001/]
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