New Orleans City Council calls for increase in trauma services for children [nola.com]

Alicia Doktor 8/16/184:00 AM

The New Orleans City Council on Thursday (Aug. 9) unanimously approved a resolution calling for a comprehensive, citywide approach to the prevention, intervention and treatment of childhood trauma.

The resolution asks the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board to present to the council -- no later than Aug. 1, 2019 -- recommendations to increase mental healthcare services for children, as well as the identification of new streams of revenue to pay for those services, and changes to city policy and laws required to implement its recommendations.

"This council is going to keep talking about trauma until it is front of mind for every single person in this community, because it is going to create a different 300 years," said Councilman Jason Williams, who co-sponsored the resolution with Councilmembers Helena Moreno and Jay Banks.

[For more on this story by Richard A. Webster, go to https://www.nola.com/health/in...y_council_traum.html]

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