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District awarded grant to expand school‑based mental health clinic; adds therapist to serve students
Summary
A state grant award will fund an additional mental‑health therapist at the district’s Panther Health and Wellness Clinic; district hired a therapist previously familiar with the schools and plans to bill insurance/Medicaid to sustain services long term.
District officials told the board they received a state award to expand school‑based clinic mental‑health services and have hired a therapist to join the clinic team.
"In April we were notified that we had been awarded the grant," said a district presenter summarizing a DESE grant process that offered three years of decreasing funding to…
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