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Parents and community members urge more prevention after multiple youth deaths; superintendent outlines supports
Summary
Several family members told the board in emotional public comments that recent youth suicides require expanded prevention and in-school supports; Superintendent Kibler outlined grief counseling, partnerships with county agencies and a multi-agency working group to strengthen prevention.
Multiple parents and community members used the board's public-comment period on March 4 to urge more proactive mental-health programming after a string of local student and young-adult deaths.
"On December 22, my wife and I lost our son to a suicide. Our son's name is Kevin," said Carl Usoitz, who told the board that, "in the past four months, three other children have been lost," and asked what the district is doing to create a "programmed organization to get in front of this problem." Usoitz pressed staff on whether students had been addressed as whole-school bodies or class by class and asked about tools for…
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