After the Parkland tragedy in February of last year, lawmakers gave more than $69 million to school districts
Tara Jungersen, Ph.D., LMHC, CCMHC, NCC
in order to focus on mental health and help prevent future mass shootings and identify troubled students who needed help. The bill did not direct schools to consider suicide prevention efforts, which is the most pressing
Tara Jungersen, an associate professor of counseling at Nova Southeastern University who was deployed to the middle school next to Parkland after last year’s shooting, acknowledged the desire to give flexibility to local
“There needs to be more focus on the mental health needs because there’s been a communal trauma,” she said. “It needs to be long-term — some of the stuff is not going to come up until possibly years later for some of these students.”
