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Youth council urges in-state eating-disorder facility, mental-health days and funding for teen spaces
Summary
The Vermont State Youth Council asked lawmakers to fund an inpatient eating-disorder facility for youth, authorize excused mental-health days for middle and high school students, and provide multiyear grant funding to sustain teen centers statewide.
Claire Zantstra, chair of the youth council’s Youth Mental Health Committee, told the Senate Government Operations Committee that Vermont lacks inpatient eating-disorder facilities for young adolescents and that families must sometimes relocate for care.
“Currently, there are no facilities within the state that accept teens under the age of 15,” Zantstra said. The committee recommended the General Assembly fund construction of…
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