Governor Lamont has signed three bills into law regarding children’s mental health.
Today, we talk to the Connecticut Child Advocate Sarah Eagan and hear from a social worker in schools.
The laws target workforce support for mental health professionals, an expansion of mental health care in schools as well as more funding for a mobile crisis response.
How would you like to see mental health access improve in our state?
Later, we hear from Makhi Ettienne-Modeste, Connecticut’s kid governor, about his platform and his term serving our state.
GUESTS:
- Sarah Eagan - Connecticut's Child Advocate
- Kerry Ann Frank - Clinical Program Manager for the School Based Health Services for Clifford Beers, a not-for-profit mental health clinic, serving seventeen surrounding towns and school districts
- Makhi Ettienne-Modeste - Connecticut Kid Governor 2021-2022
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