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As political giving mounted, lawmakers backed mental health center

  • Michelle Crouch, NC Health News

This story was co-published by NC Health News and The Charlotte Ledger. In 2020, Charlotte businessman Michael Estramonte set out to build a nonprofit treatment center to create more space for kids in mental health crisis. The idea quickly won support from state and local lawmakers. Since 2023, the Katie Blessing Center has secured more than […]

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The biggest barrier to teen mental health isn’t treatment. 

  • Ann Oshel

The tragedies at Myers Park High School have prompted necessary conversations across Charlotte about youth mental health and what more can be done to support young people before they reach a crisis point. Those conversations matter. But while the recent discussion has centered on one school and one community, the challenge is hardly unique to Mecklenburg County. Across […]