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Martinsburg Initiative asks county to expand school social‑work coverage as grant funding tightens
Summary
Margaret Kersey, director of the Martinsburg Initiative, described the nonprofit’s school‑based social‑work and substance‑use prevention programs and asked commissioners to consider county funding to expand services to all Berkeley County schools. The group is fully grant funded and seeks local support to sustain positions and programming.
Margaret Kersey, director of the Martinsburg Initiative, asked the commission to consider county funding to expand school‑based social‑work services and prevention programming countywide.
Kersey said the initiative currently places 16 social workers in city schools and provides mentoring, after‑school programs, Naloxone training, prevention education and support for linkage coordinators who work with people in treatment. “We are 100% grant funded,” she said, and described the organization’s work on crisis‑response training for 9‑1‑1 dispatchers, a stocked community
