Why is Tennessee’s $250M investment in youth mental health collecting dust?
Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee lawmakers invested $250 million intoThe Mental Health Trust Fund, aimed to support youth mental health in schools. (Mark Humphrey/AP Photo file)
The first dollars from the 2021 investment for the Mental Health Trust Fund will be spent in fiscal year 2025. A Republican senator said, “I thought we should have just used that money... It just languishes in the Treasury.”
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Ian Round
Ian Round is The Daily Memphian’s state government reporter based in Nashville. He came to Tennessee from Maryland, where he reported on local politics for Baltimore Brew. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in December 2019.
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