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title: "Navigating a Broken System: The State of Mental Health in Child Welfare"
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# Navigating a Broken System: The State of Mental Health in Child Welfare

This is a first-hand account from Dr. Jacobs who works with children from child welfare and captures the efforts he has made to improve the quality of mental health services for this population.

 

[Read More](https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.20230228)

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