"If we don't adequately support our children, they become adults with mental health issues," Melanie Erickson, child and family services coordinator for Morrison County, Minn., tells the Duluth News Tribune.
That's why she and her team are applying for a $200,000 grant from the Sourcewell Foundation to create a children's mental health initiative within Region 5, which includes the counties of Morrison, Cass, Wadena, Todd, and Crow Wing.
The idea is to provide in-home therapy and other services to kids who might otherwise be sent to other parts of the state for assessment.
Erickson says the state has invested in school-based mental health grants, but there's been no integrated approach to this within the state's counties.
"It's my hope that they will come forward at some point and, perhaps after we invest in this as a region and we can demonstrate to the state some of these improved numbers, maybe that helps that cause," she says.
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