‘The story of COVID is going to be the kids who don’t make it’: Plea to boost regional mental health care

It was the third time in 12 months that Jen’s 15-year-old son had attempted suicide.

As he was lying in his Melbourne hospital bed with a hopeless look in his eyes, she wondered for the hundredth time if things could have been different.

Zac had first raised the alarm in October last year,…