Parkland Shooting Survivor Creating App That Would Increase Emotional Support in Schools

News Staff : Mar 20, 2018
Faithwire.com

"I am right now working on an app ... to help moms maybe volunteer at school for emotional support." -Kyle Kashuv

[Faithwire.com] School safety and the treatment of mental illness has been at the forefront of the minds of parents, students and lawmakers ever since the Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, took the lives of 17 innocent people. (Screengrab: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior Kyle Kashuv/Fox News/via Faithwire.com)

One of the teen survivors, junior Kyle Kashuv, has taken the personal initiative of designing an app for emotional support, Fox News reported.

"We definitely understand we have a lacking in the department for emotional support at our schools," the 17-year-old said last week. "And right now, we clearly see a lot of movement in legislation trying to enact that."

Public schools are notoriously too understaffed to deal with the majority of students' mental health needs, but Kashuv is trying to change that by involving parents on a larger scale...

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