As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is running guest essays this week about mental health in schools. This is the fifth of those essays.
Sources of Strength, a national suicide prevention model, began in several Cobb County schools over 15 years ago and has expanded steadily, with new schools joining each year.
One in five students has a current, diagnosed mental or behavioral health condition. Georgia's student-to-school counselor ratio is 386:1, far above the recommended ratio.
A Chamblee High School student explains how the Green Heart STEM Challenge helped Georgia teens turn climate lessons into real fixes for creek erosion.
Future partnerships with the city of Atlanta must include stronger accountability, a revisit of pilot payments and a deeper analysis of existing caps on corridor TADs.