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Funding restored to Maryland youth mental health initiatives

By Sasha Allen Maryland mental health advocates and providers are relieved coming out of this year’s legislative session, where state lawmakers decided against a drastic cut in funding to the state’s year-old, big-money program aimed at improving the mental health of its young people. The Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports, created under the state’s ambitious […]

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Rapid-response teams aid troubled youths in New Jersey – but funding limits Maryland’s similar effort

By Colin McnamaraCapital News Service A New Jersey girl tormented others in her kindergarten class. Alienated from her classmates, she physically attacked other students and colored the bathroom walls with a permanent marker.  Access to mental health care was complicated in her rural county, and school officials considered suspending the 6-year-old. That was when the […]

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