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Local parent at opening urges support for children in crisis
Summary
At the behavioral health center opening, a parent described bringing children to emergency rooms and urged the community not to abandon young people in crisis, saying it can feel like 'failure' for families and pleading, 'just please don't leave them.'
A local parent addressed attendees at the new behavioral health center opening, offering a personal account of coping with children's mental-health needs and urging continued community support.
"Personally, I've experienced with 2 of out our 5 children a mental health need," the resident said. Describing emergency-room experiences, the parent said, "As a parent, I felt like a failure," and recounted leaving a child in an emergency room while the child pleaded for help: "just please don't leave them." The testimony framed the opening as personally significant because the presence of local services could reduce traumatic emergency-room separations.
The parent's remarks were cited by presenters as a reminder of local need and urgency; officials repeatedly framed the center as a way to keep support local so families and neighbors have better access to care.
