Trustees advocate for more mental health services in Alberta schools

An injection of cash last spring for school mental health therapists was helpful, but not enough to help the number of students arriving in Alberta schools daily with mental health problems, an Edmonton school trustee said Monday.
“We are nowhere close to being able to meet these needs in our education and health systems,” Edmonton public school trustee Shelagh Dunn said of the estimated 20 per cent of children and youth living with mental health problems.
On Monday, school trustees