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ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) As federal data shows a rising mental health crisis among teens in the United States, one high school has decided to take a different approach to helping students. Officials at Alta-Aurelia High School, a public high school in Alta, Iowa, created teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA), a program that not only helps teens create an action plan for coping with their mental health, but also teaches students to help each other. The program is the brainchild of Belinda Shea, school counselor at Alta-Aurelia High, which serves around 200 students. "The teen mental health program is designed to help teens respond appropriately to their peers," Shea told " Good Morning America." "I think it gives them a way to talk about mental health, hopefully take away some of that stigma that we hear or that we know about mental health." The first step in the program is helping students identify the challenges they re experiencing, and then identifyin

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