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Joel Brennan: “Mental health has to be part of basic health care.”

Featuring: Joel Brennan, Democratic | Candidate, Governor of Wisconsin

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June 11th 2026 - Governor Candidates Education Forum - Indivisible South Shore - Camera 2

Published | Video Starts at 23:52

So there is a heaviness around mental health that is a challenge for everybody. The first thing that I would do. It's not necessarily around schools, but it's something more global. Mental health has to be part of basic health care. In Wisconsin, we have a fractured system, no matter what, regardless of what happens in the classroom. And we need to make sure that every school, every person in Wisconsin understands that mental health is part of their basic. (23:52–23:56)

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