A 13-year-old Nevada student’s firsthand experience with the toll of school bullying helped galvanize a major new investment in children’s behavioral health care across the state.
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Hanna Aschenaki, who has advocated for bullying awareness and helped organize an antibullying conference in her community, was among those on hand this week when the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust announced a $20 million commitment to Intermountain Health. The pledge, described as one of the largest philanthropic investments of its kind in Nevada history, is directed at expanding pediatric behavioral health specialty services throughout the region…