'Absolutely terrified': Seattle students push for more mental health support in schools

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Seattle students are demanding more mental health resources in the wake of another deadly school shooting.

“I was absolutely terrified," Franklin High School senior Natalya McConnell said. "This was the second school shooting in a little over a year."

“We still only have one mental health counselor for 1,300 students at Franklin,” she explained. “Students, if they had access to a mental health counselor or they had trusted adults they could talk to any time they needed, they would not go to a place of violence.” "Counselors at Garfield and across the school district are overworked, and appointments with the school's therapist are hard to come by," the letter states. "The city has a responsibility to protect students and prevent school shootings."there will be more police patrols in the Garfield neighborhood, and he acknowledged the need for even more supports.

 

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