Advocates say youth mental health services still in crisis

FEELING THE STRUGGLE: Tides Family Services Inc., which provides families with home-based counseling services for children, has been dealing with a staffing shortage that forced it to start a waiting list for the first time in 40 years. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON
FEELING THE STRUGGLE: Tides Family Services Inc., which provides families with home-based counseling services for children, has been dealing with a staffing shortage that forced it to start a waiting list for the first time in 40 years. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Rebecca Almeida spent three hours on a recent school day searching for her 14-year-old daughter. Suffering from several behavioral health challenges, Almeida’s daughter lost her temper while at school in West Warwick and fled without anyone noticing. Hours later, after Almeida had filed a missing person’s report, the teen was found at a friend’s house.

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