MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
In tough neighborhoods, can high-school mental health counselors cut the school-to-prison pipeline?
By Brianna Ehley for Politico.com's special series The Agenda 2020
[....] A growing number of school districts, like the District of Columbia school system, are beginning to provide comprehensive mental health services on campus, seeing it as not just a service to students, but a key way to keep lives on track, keep kids out of the justice system, and to treat problems before they get out of hand [....]