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Commission hears rising mental-health and youth-service needs; several agencies seek support
Summary
Multiple Edmond nonprofits asked the Community Agency Review Commission for funds to expand school-based counseling, sliding-scale therapy, and trauma-informed youth programs. Requests included $45,000 for an OCU family therapy clinic and $60,600 for Ministries of Jesus clinical care.
Commissioners heard repeated themes about mental-health demand, workforce shortages and gaps in school-based services during a long series of agency presentations.
Christy Batterson, the city’s director of housing and community resources, told the commission housing is the top community need, but also highlighted mental health as a high-ranking need from the city’s Edmond Connect survey. "Housing is the number 1 need, throughout the community," she said, and added…
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