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Joe Matthews is the California & Democracy editor for Zócalo Public Square and writes the Connecting California column.
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It Takes a Village to Tackle the Teen Mental Health Crisis

by Joe Mathews Why you can trust MindSite News

Since 2020, middle school and high school students who are members of the Gonzales, California Youth Council, a parallel city council for the young have created a new mental health strategy for the city and its schools, and secured resources to enact it. In the process, Gonzales teens offered a model of do-it-yourself pandemic response.

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