Q&A: Bringing focus to children's mental health

National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day is Thursday.

The issue of mental health is often brought up after a crisis, and even in the gun debate at the Capitol. But discussion of mental health in children is less focused on.

Steve Lipinski, executive director of the Washburn Center for Children in Minneapolis, speaks with MPR News about children's mental health.

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