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Counselors and community urge board to spare school-based mental-health positions
Summary
Multiple counselors and community members told the Santa Rosa City Schools board that proposed cuts to elementary, college-and-career, and MTSS counselors would harm students’ mental health, legal compliance for 504/IEP needs, and postsecondary supports, urging trustees to 'keep cuts away from the students.'
Scores of counselors and school staff used the public-comment period at the Jan. 14 board meeting to press trustees to retain counseling and school-based mental-health positions.
Christine Arkin, a counselor at Pioneer High School, said it would be ‘‘ironic’’ to adopt a resolution recognizing counselors while the district contemplates cuts, and asked how training requirements and staffing for early-warning recognition will be implemented. She told the…
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