College student reflects on mental health struggles and how her "school mom and school dad" changed her life

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A college student at UCLA credits two of her former educators for changing the course of her life. When Caitlynn Hauw was in high school in San Diego she said she struggled with her mental health. Her mother, Vanessa Dang, was a single parent raising four kids and fighting breast cancer – so while Hauw worried about her mom, she kept her own struggles mostly to herself until she said she couldn't anymore. "It got so bad to the point where I attempted suicide in my sophomore year of high school,"