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Student-services director outlines mental-health plan, staffing and new partnerships for 2025–26
Summary
Courtney Owen, director of student services, presented Transylvania County Schools' five-year mental-health plan, staffing numbers, partnerships with external mental-health providers and planned programs including Olweus bullying prevention and a freshman mentoring program.
Courtney Owen, Transylvania County Schools' director of student services, presented the district's required five-year school mental-health plan and described staffing, partnerships and program priorities for the 2025–26 school year.
Owen said the district will open the year with 11 school counselors, four school social workers, one school-based therapist employed by Transylvania County Schools, four therapists from Blue Ridge Health, one school resource officer assigned to each school, three school nurses and one dropout prevention coordinator. She described work to align the mental-health plan with the district strategic plan and to increase data reporting to the state.
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