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Pediatricians and child psychiatrists urge integrated, evidence-based school mental-health programs and pilots
Summary
Health experts told the Senate commission that Puerto Rico is facing a pediatric mental-health crisis driven by disasters, demographic change and workforce shortages, and proposed teleconsultation pilots, HRSA-funded pediatric mental-health access programs and small school pilots like 'Destellos de Esperanza.'
Pediatric and psychiatric experts who testified at the commission's June 5 hearing described an island-wide pediatric mental-health challenge and offered concrete program ideas.
Dr. Gredia Huerta MontaF1ez (Academy of American Pediatrics, Puerto Rico chapter) and Dr. Karen MartEDnez GonzE1lez (child and adolescent psychiatry) told senators that available epidemiologic data are outdated and that workforce shortages are acute: Dr. MartEDnez said there are about…
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