A counsellor at a Halifax-area elementary school says the demand for mental health needs of students has grown in the past decade, but resources for counsellors haven't kept up.

Braedyn Watson is a grade 8 student with special needs at Graham Creighton Junior High in Cherry Brook, N.S. While watching his school's basketball team play in a tournament this week, Watson got more involved then he could have imagined.

Zach Churchill says a full complement of early childhood educators has been hired to teach in all 50 classes in 43 locations across the province.