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Community members press Durham schools to expand mental-health supports and bring HEART response into schools
Summary
Parents, teachers and community advocates asked the Durham Public Schools board to maintain co-located mental-health services, improve counselor ratios, restore master's pay for school social workers and pursue an interlocal agreement to place HEART crisis response teams in schools, including a $450,000 county funding request.
Parents, teachers and community advocates used the budget hearing to press Durham Public Schools to expand mental-health services, increase school counselor supports, restore pay differentials for school social workers with master’s degrees and pursue partnership funding to embed HEART crisis-response teams in schools.
Fern Hickey, a parent at I.K. Poe Elementary and member of School Parents for Immigrant Defense, asked the board to keep funding for co-located mental-health services, improve school counselor ratios and support expansion of HEART into Durham schools. Hickey said…
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