Boston Children's Hospital announced it received a record-breaking donation Wednesday: $100 million to transform the future of pediatric behavioral health care.

Rob and Karen Hale made the gift and said, for them, the donation was personal after friends would come to them over the years asking for advice with their kids' mental health struggles.

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"There was no access to be had, there were no rooms, there was no help to be had," Rob Hale said. "That was probably the most startling to Karen and I was, 'My goodness, these kids need help, and they can't get help, and we have to try to help to create access for them.'"

The money will help build a new behavioral health facility on the Brighton campus of Franciscan Childr

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