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JACKSON, Miss.—LaBethani May started her career as a schoolteacher, but after noticing how many students needed mental health support, she decided to change paths. “Many of them were receiving services and some were not great. I just felt inadequate to help them,” she told the Mississippi Free Press on Sept. 16.
She went back to school, obtained a master’s degree in counseling and began working as an evidence-based, mental health first-aid provider…