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Board approves adding posting for grant-funded family support director after SEL presentation
Summary
After a presentation on a state-funded family support-center grant, the board agreed to authorize posting a one-year Family Support Director position funded by the grant (salary in the proposal about $52,000). Presenters cited rising chronic absenteeism and unmet community-facing mental-health needs.
Mister Bennett, the district's director of student services, told the Iroquois board that a state grant opportunity would fund a community-facing family support center and related programs designed to keep students in school by connecting families to mental-health and wraparound services.
"Kids who are in crisis can't learn. Period," Bennett said while describing a proposed coordinator role intended to identify and route intensive cases to outside providers, reduce duplication among building-based staff, and bring the…
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