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School officials review teen mental-health first-aid proposal tied to opioid-abatement funds
Summary
Clarke County School officials heard a presentation from Northwestern Community Services Board on using Opioid Abatement Authority funds for a Teen Mental Health First Aid curriculum aimed at ninth-graders and opioid/fentanyl awareness; staff said they will proceed with an application if the board has no objection.
Andrea Bieber, director of program services for the Northwestern Community Services Board, told the Clarke County School Board on Jan. 27 that the board’s county administrator, Chris Boyce, invited the agency to propose using Opioid Abatement Authority funds for youth prevention work in local schools.
Bieber said the proposal would bring an evidence-based Teen Mental Health First Aid curriculum into Clarke County classrooms, targeted at ninth-grade students, and include an optional lesson focused on opioid and fentanyl awareness. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” Bieber said, and described the curriculum as an established practice endorsed by national behavioral-health groups.
The nut graf: The presentation asked the school board’s…
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