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District signs NECCO contract for elementary mental-health services as special-education needs rise
Summary
Forest Hills approved an agreement for NECCO to provide therapists and caseworkers in elementary schools at no charge to the district; administration outlined rising special-education caseload severity and increasing numbers of ESE classrooms.
The Forest Hills board approved, as part of its consent agenda, an agreement with NECCO to provide school-based mental-health services in elementary buildings. The district will host NECCO therapists and a caseworker in elementary schools; administrators said the program is private-insurance based and that the Forest Hills Foundation will help cover services for uninsured families.
Assistant superintendent…
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