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YouthCentric wins $375,000 Cobb County ARPA grant to expand college-led high school mental-health program

5054950 · June 23, 2025
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YouthCentric, an after-school program started by Scott Solana, was awarded $375,000 from Cobb County ARPA funds to expand a college-student–led mental health and resilience program that has served about 350 high school students and will extend to neighboring counties.

YouthCentric, an after-school mental-health program started by Scott Solana, was awarded a $375,000 ARPA grant from Cobb County to expand peer-led resilience programming for high school students.

The grant, awarded under Cobb County’s ARPA community health priority category, supports a program that pairs college students with high schoolers to teach stress-management and other coping skills; YouthCentric organizers say the program has served about 350 students and has secured an additional, unspecified grant to support expansion over the next two years into Cherokee, Paulding and Bartow…

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