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WVU Tackles Youth Mental Health Crisis and Critical Provider Shortage with Innovative School Programming | Today

WVU mental health experts will use more than $5 million in federal grants to increase the number of mental health care providers in West Virginia schools at a time when many school-aged residents of the state experience higher rates of suicidal thoughts, depression, anxiety and feelings of loneliness. (WVU Photo/Brian Persinger) Mental health experts based