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Clinicians, school health staff urge board to restore county school-based mental health program
Summary
Multiple clinicians and school health staff told the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners during public comment that a proposal in the county's current budget to eliminate the school-based mental health program would remove a critical safety net for students, particularly BIPOC and undocumented youth.
Speakers at the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners’ public comment period said they were alarmed by a proposal in the county’s current budget to end the school-based mental health program and urged commissioners to keep the program intact.
Frances Flores Tapia, who identified herself as a Spanish-speaking Latina and a clinician in the county’s school-based mental health program, told the board the program delivers crisis and ongoing mental-health treatment across multiple school districts. “I’d like to address the confusing and shocking proposal to terminate school based mental health services,” she said. Flores Tapia said 26 clinicians currently work across six school districts and that “60% of our team provides culturally specific services.”
The speakers described…
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