Mental Health Policy Expert Tells Texas Senate: School-Based Universal Mental Health Programs Are Ineffective

Says schools dealing with historically low academic achievement should, in effect, leave it up to the actual mental health professionals

This week the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services held a hearing on the state of child mental health. Manhattan Institute’s data scientist and policy analyst Carolyn Gorman was joined by the CEO of a Texas-sized large mental health clinic organization (middle), and a medical doctor from the University of Texas (right) who runs a teleheal…