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Chautauqua County committee approves county mental-health staff to provide supervision, trainings in public schools
Summary
The Human Services Committee approved a resolution allowing the Department of Mental Hygiene and Social Services to provide clinical supervision and mental-health trainings to Chautauqua County public schools under memoranda of understanding; no money will change hands and county staff will not assume clinical responsibility for students.
The Chautauqua County Human Services Committee voted Sept. 17 to authorize the county Department of Mental Hygiene and Social Services to provide clinical supervision and mental-health-related trainings to public school staff and, where appropriate, school-based clinicians.
The measure — brought by Trish MacLennan, deputy director of the county Department of Mental Hygiene and Social Services — creates a countywide approval for schools that request help with clinical supervision or trainings such as suicide prevention, substance-use prevention and staff wellness. MacLennan told the committee the resolution does not create a payment relationship: "This is not a resolution for those therapists that we put in the school that we end up, as part of our clinic, as an off-site that we bill for. So there's no money exchange in this."
The nut graf: Committee members described…
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