Department of Public Instruction Distributes Funds to School Districts for Students' Mental Health
Friday, July 19th, 2019 -- 10:44 AM
-The Department of Public Instruction distributed $6.5 million for services to support students' mental health in 120 public school districts and one independent charter school.The funding comes from the School-Based Mental Health Services Grants Program. "According to the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey results, more than four in ten students had a mental health need over the previous year," State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor said. "These grants will help those children. Students in every region of our state, in small and large districts, rural and urban communities, and everywhere in between, will benefit from mental health services they wouldn't otherwise receive."
Some local school districts receiving funding include the Black River Falls School District with $75,000; the Augusta School District with $70,000; the Medford Consortium, which includes Medford and Rib Lake, with $75,000; the Marshfield School District with $75,000; and the Marathon County Consortium, which includes Abbotsford, Athens, Edgar, Marathon, Rosholt and Spencer, with $72,750.
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