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How this Texas college gives every single student help with trauma, mental health| The Dallas Morning News

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How this Texas college gives every single student help with trauma, mental health| The Dallas Morning News

[dropcap]Paul[/dropcap] Quinn College prides itself as a school that aggressively recruits the kids often ignored by big-name universities: [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

Students who grew up in tough Chicago neighborhoods where it is common to lose a classmate to gang violence. Children from Los Angeles to New York to South Dallas who struggle to break the cycle of poverty.

And those students do well. At first.

But inevitably, too many fail as they wrestle with the trauma stirring within them.

So now Paul Quinn has launched an aggressive mental health campaign in an effort to help every student on campus be successful not only in school, but also in life.