LA County Invests Big in Free Virtual Mental Health Therapy for K-12 Students
LOS ANGELES-- Los Angeles County public schools are presenting an enthusiastic effort to use totally free psychological health services to their 1.3 million K-12 trainees, an essential test of California Gov. Gavin Newsom's sweeping, $4.7 billion program to resolve a youth psychological health crisis.
Led by the county's Medi-Cal strategies-- which supply medical insurance to low-income locals-- in partnership with its Office of Education and Department of Mental Health, the LA school program counts on teletherapy services supplied by Hazel Health, among a clutch of business that have actually emerged to resolve an across the country scarcity of psychological health services that grew much even worse throughout the covid-19 pandemic.
The teletherapy effort is among 4 LA County ta...