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A Vigilante for Mental Health


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Greenwood librarian Michelle Oliver lost her 24-year-old son to suicide six years ago. Since then, she's turned her grief into a powerful mission—researching and advocating for mental health awareness to ensure that no other family, and no other student, has to go through that same pain. Kelby Agnew reports.

NOTE: A few months after her son's death, Mrs. Oliver collaborated to create a unit about mental health issues teachers can use as they teach Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Find out more here: https://www.slj.com/story/librarians-devastating-loss-provides-mental-health-lens-for-teaching-romeo-and-juliet-suicide

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