More psych hospital beds are needed for kids, but neighbors say not here

More psych hospital beds are needed for kids, but neighbors say not here

Amid a youth mental health crisis and a shortage of inpatient psychiatric beds, residents of a St. Louis suburb opposed a plan to build a 77-bed pediatric mental health hospital. Resistance to such facilities has occurred in other communities as misconceptions about mental health spur fear.

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