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When the Apology isn't Enough: Parenting Through a Broken Mental Health System #adoptionawareness #adoptiveparenting #complexneeds #fiercelove #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #parentadvocate #parentingthroughcrisis #specialneedsparenting #systemicfailure #traumainformedcare #truthtelling #whiteawakeparenting

The mental health system is broken. If you’ve ever tried to get support for your child, you already know.

Waitlists stretch for months. Providers are maxed out (I wrote another blog post about the mental health system needing 5x as many child psychiatrists as we currently have). Agencies are scramb...