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Has trauma counseling or other services been offered to you or other survivors? What is your perception of how your school, community, the state, and the nation responded to this?

Not OP, but attempting to field the 'level of care' question. Level of Care describes the intensity of the applied treatment. There is a continuum from least intense (outpatient) to most intense (inpatient hospitalization and beyond). Depending on the issue, a clinician will recommend an appropriate level of care. Many non-severe mental health issues can be treated with a lower intensity treatment (counseling, prescription medication, support group). As the intensity of the issue raises so does the level of care. E.g. People who are actively suicidal (i.e. acute), who have a plan and acted on that plan, need intense treatment (hospital, 24/7 monitoring, etc) to become stable and not suicidal, versus someone who has general thoughts, but no plan or actions, of suicide. For those folks, outpatient counseling and/or outpatient psychiatry can relieve symptoms to promote safety and stability.

What about Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell? Would be interesting to see how much of a common donor base they share.

I'm not calling BS on this story. What about Good Samaritan law? Of course, father has power of medical decisions - life and death - but the intervention was standard first aid. Couldn't someone in this position render this aid, even against the wishes of the guardian, and damn the legal torpedos because they acted in good faith?

Thanks!!! Really interesting to see McConnell out raised Paul 4x in each's last campaign. And that McConnell really had to raise a ton in that last election. Even though they're both from the same state and Republican, their big donor bases are somewhat different.