About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Suzanne Simpson discusses the failures of the teen mental health system with Chris Coulter, who shares his personal experience and initiatives to improve mental health support for teenagers.

Is your teenager is struggling, and are you done waiting for a broken system to catch up? In this episode, I sit down with Chris Coulter, a father who lost his 14-year-old daughter Maddie to suicide in 2015. Chris learned the hard way where the public mental health system failed his family, and turned that knowledge into action. He built MindGrade to hold schools accountable for student mental health, and MentorWell to give teenagers the kind of consistent adult presence many of them are miss...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Suzanne Simpson

Guest: Chris Coulter

Topics covered

• teen mental health
• mental health system
• suicide prevention
• parenting
• accountability in education

Keywords

• teen mental health
• mental health system
• suicide
• parenting
• MindGrade
• MentorWell
• accountability
• support
• adults in teens' lives

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MindGrade, MentorWell

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