Program inspired by troubling data on teenage girls’ mental health referrals and hospitalizations At Carlynton Junior-Senior High School in Carnegie, a community just outside of Pittsburgh, PA, an innovative program called Girls Supporting Girls is making the high school’s challenges easier for girls to navigate together. As the program grows, girls are building skills, forging friendships, and even charting new paths toward future careers. It all began when school psychologist Patricia Serdy was looking at troubling data on teenage girls’ mental health referrals and hospitalizations. “I found some pretty consistent trends: girls who were at an age in their life where they were really just struggling, but they were struggling…