According to the Washington Post (6/6, Villegas), in the days since the school shootings in Uvalde, TX, “therapists have flooded the town, offering counseling to grief-stricken residents.” In the next few weeks or months, however, “most of those support organizations will leave,” and even though “several public and private practices in the town offer behavioral and mental health services, experts say Uvalde lacks inpatient treatment options, and enough psychiatrists specializing in children and adolescents.” Despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R-TX) promises to increase the region’s mental health resources, “a recent report by the nonprofit Mental Health America ranked the Lone Star State 51st in the nation on access to mental health care – a ranking that weighs access to insurance and treatment, quality and cost of insurance, access to special education, and mental health workforce availability.”
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