WACO, Texas (KWTX) - As more and more students face behavioral health challenges such as anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD, Waco ISD is helping give their students access to licensed behavioral health professionals.

Thanks to a new partnership between the district and Waco Family Medicine, clinicians with Waco Family Medicine will soon be placed at Cesar Chavez, Tennyson, and G.W. Carver middle school.

For years, Waco ISD Deputy Superintendent Melissa King-Knowles says they’ve worked with Waco Family Medicine, who shared with them a growing need within the district.

“Waco Family Medicine has shared that Waco itself, we have a 29% higher rate of the pediatric mental health hospitalizations than the state average for Texas,” King-Knowles shared.

And so since fall of 2024 they’ve been

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