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Illinois Children's Mental Health Partnership

Editor's Note: Cutting Support for Kids Will Lead to Larger Costs Later

Maureen Foertsch McKinney

Odds are, if a child doesn’t experience good parenting, schooling in early development programs and care for mental illness or other health care needs, he…