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Supporting youth mental health: the JovenSalud tool

“We thought it was a fantasy at the beginning, but now we’ve had results,” says Juan José Hernández, counselor at the San Rafael de Platanares de Pérez Zeledón Technical Professional College (CTP). He’s talking about the JovenSalud platform, created by the nonprofit organization TeenSmart International (TSI). In 2016, along with another teacher from his school, […]

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