5 wishes for healing Wisconsin's kids [PostCrescent.com]

Samantha Sangenito 3/18/164:00 AM

With a dearth of child psychiatrists in the state, Wisconsin must expand a program that prepares primary care doctors to treat the kids they already see who show signs of mental illness.

That was one of the solutions suggested by experts to USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. As part of our reporting on Kids in Crisis, we've been on a journey, exploring all the twists and turns involving children’s mental health in the states. We also asked parents, advocates and providers in the field to offer their best answers on the policy and culture changes to help kids.

More than 15 experts from urban and rural settings in Wisconsin shared steps we can take as individuals, as communities, and as a state to end Wisconsin's mental health crisis.

[For more of this story, written by Rory Linnane, Katherine Lymn, and Sharon Roznik, go to http://www.postcrescent.com/st...nsins-kids/81123546/]

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