Dillon Burns: Preventing school violence, a mental health perspective

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Dillon Burns, who is mental health services director at Vermont Care Partners in Montpelier.When a teenager from Fair Haven was arraigned for planning a school shooting a month ago — following closely on the heels of the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida — Vermont’s communities started having a more serious conversation than ever before about gun violence prevention. Echoing the national dialogue, many have voiced a need to k