A study tracked what happened to kids after a behavioral emergency, then tried to figure out how to fix it.
ATLANTA — It’s easy to count what happens. It’s much harder to count what doesn’t happen at all.
That gap — the invisible tally of care never received, appointments never made, children left to navigate a broken system — is at the heart of a study from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University. It puts hard numbers on a crisis Georgia has long struggled to quantify.
Between May and December of 2024, Children’s tracked
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