shannon monnat

Yates County schools face a mental health crisis. School psychologist Christine Diamond says, "What I’ve experienced in the past 5 years has been sickening," She was talking about the quality of mental health care she’s seen for children.

"It’s like we’ve learned nothing from the failures of our drug policies over the past 40 years... If we were to invest similar money into revitalizing social infrastructure and economic infrastructure and our educational system we would see long term benefits," said Shannon Monnat, sociology professor at Syracuse University, who specializes in public health.