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Newington board honors recovery advocate; students report strong mental‑health supports
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The Newington Board of Education recognized Tom Frable for speaking about recovery to students and heard student representatives report nearly 95% of respondents feel comfortable speaking with adults at Newington High School; the board praised the district’s mental‑health seminar and resource network.
The Newington Board of Education on Wednesday honored Tom Frable as the meeting’s “everyday hero” and heard student representatives describe district mental‑health efforts they say are reaching students.
Christina Redmond and colleagues nominated Frable for repeatedly sharing his lived experience with substance use and recovery in the district’s mental‑health seminar. In the nomination read at the meeting, Redmond said Frable’s talks “speak with honesty, humility and courage” and…
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