The number of young people suffering from depression has increased almost 40 percent in the last three years. And, as the Hamilton Southeastern School District has found, mental health issues are hardly limited to teens.
After the city of Fishers, an Indianapolis suburb of about 90,000, had 13 suicides in 2016, city officials launched a campaign to destigmatize mental health issues—including in the school system.
Last year, Hamilton schools passed a referendum to provide mental health services to its 21 schools, serving more than 22,000 students.
[For more of this story, written by Tim Goral, go to https://www.districtadministra...ealth-starts-schools]
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