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Students Lobby City for Mental Health Funding
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NEW YORK, NY June 12, 2007 —Hundreds of students, parents, and mental health advocates lobbied the city council today for more money for services in the public schools. Fifteen-year-old Delania Contreras says her visits with a social worker have helped improve her relationship with her mother.
CONTRERAS: If we have a problem or stuff, they help us, like if we have problems with our family, problems with school, they give us advices and stuff, so they're like friends.
REPORTER: Councilwoman Gale Brewer says there are 100-thousand teens on waiting lists for city mental health services. Advocates want six million dollars to fund programs, and ten million dollars for clinic renovations.
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