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Specialist shortage, scheduling issues complicate Lawrence families’ struggle to get kids mental health help
There’s a ”pediatric therapeutic desert” here in Lawrence, one mom says.
A play therapy provider says it’s a crisis “in the sense that there’s just not enough of us to do the work.”