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Board approves district participation in Call A Doctor Plus mental-health grant
Summary
The board voted to accept a third-party mental-health grant program (Call A Doctor Plus) that would funnel no-cost behavioral health services to students, families and staff; presenters said the program would be implemented after district approval and could begin in 45–60 days.
The Leavenworth board voted on June 9 to accept Call A Doctor Plus, a grant-funded mental-health program district staff characterized as no-cost to the district that provides teletherapy, in-person services and coaching for students, families and staff.
Presenters Shelby Hardesty, behavior analyst and district mental-health coordinator, and Meredith Dyke, school psychologist, told trustees the program’s model channels philanthropic grant funds through the district to pay service providers. “It’s a $2,000,000 grant. So it’s no cost to our district,” Hardesty said on the record. When asked whether the money was guaranteed, presenters later said Call A Doctor told them it had identified $4,000,000 and intended a three-year contract, a detail the presenters noted as part of ongoing administrative work to finalize terms.
Staff said the program would offer rapid access: routine appointments within two to three days, urgent care within one day, and emergency same-day support, and that certain qualifying incidents make students eligible for a set number of sessions. Presenters said the grant would include quarterly, anonymized usage reports (age bands, incident categories and aggregate counts) to the district but not individual clinical records.
Trustee Price moved to accept the grant; Trustee Murphy seconded. The board voted to proceed. “A motion with Price to go with the call a doctor grama, by missus Murphy. All in favor?” President Carney asked; voices answered “Aye.” Staff said, pending approval, services would begin after a 45–60 day initiation period.
Presenters and trustees discussed liability and oversight. Hardesty said the district’s role is to provide the resource list to families and that clinical malpractice liability would remain with the service providers. Board members asked for regular reporting on usage and outcomes; presenters said the vendor would supply quarterly aggregate reports that district staff would use for trend analysis and to inform other interventions.
