Reducing barriers to mental health care is the goal of a future bill to be proposed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, specifically getting the services directly to kids in schools.

"The children's mental health is in a crisis state," said Christine Michaels, the CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Keystone Pennsylvania, also known as NAMI.

She said while access to care has improved, it's still lacking. In fact, the organization said across Pennsylvania, 98,000 kids between the ages of 12 and 17 are diagnosed with depression, but 57 percent of them are not able to receive care.

"The primary need is to be able to get the care at the time that you're in need of it," Michaels said.

She feels one way to achieve this is by bringing more services to the place where kids

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