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With rates of depression, anxiety and suicide rising among children in Georgia and across the nation, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published its “Children in Crisis” investigation that examined whether kids could get the medical care they needed to get better. The series documented the ways Georgia’s mental health system is failing the state’s children.

Credit: arvin.temkar@ajc.com

Part 1: Georgia’s mental health system is failing kids

Credit: Contributed

Part 2: Even with troubled histories, psych hospitals face few sanctions

Credit: HYOSUB SHIN / AJC

Part 3: Critics say Children’s Healthcare should do more

Credit: Miguel Martinez

Part 4: Small-town hospital providing comprehensive mental health care for kids

Credit: arvin.temkar@ajc.com

Record number of child suicides highlights Georgia’s broken mental health system

Credit: Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters

Children’s hospitals elsewhere expanding mental health care

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New behavioral health chief at Children’s develops plan

Credit: Ga House of Representatives

Georgia’s low payments rates, shortage of safety-net beds leave kids waiting for mental...
Further coverage

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Children’s announces major gift, new center

How Georgia’s new mental health law works

Credit: Steve Schaefer

Children’s Healthcare amasses wealth as some families struggle to find pediatric care

Credit: TNS

Pandemic reveals depth of children’s mental health needs
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