"As many as one in five children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder in a given year, according to national data recently compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
"...The CDC estimated that mental illness in children costs $247 billion each year....
“My big worry is that we’re going to miss the boat; we’re going to look at all theses issues separately and not see how they’re all really connected,” Edwards said. “You can’t just work on education without acknowledging health; you can’t work on health without acknowledging the justice system. The more that our systems work together, I think it’s for the better.”
"For instance, the trauma-informed approach to mental health care has been gaining traction as an effective tactic for schools to adopt....
"And sometimes all it takes is a good listener. Edwards recalls talking to a young man from a violent neighborhood in East Oakland about the issue. “He said, ‘I just want somebody in my school that I can talk to; I want somebody to ask me how I’m doing.’”
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