Tackling Children’s Mental Health Struggles
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A few months after a mass shooting left 19 children and two educators dead in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school last year, a student in counseling with Austin, Texas, elementary school psychologist Katherine Griffin-Erickson ’90 posed a troubling question.
“What’s the plan?” he asked, eyes darting around her office. “Where can we hide if somebody comes in and starts shooting?”