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APS reports staffing gains, data tweaks and vape-detector rollout as part of opioid-settlement-funded prevention work
Summary
Albuquerque Public Schools officials reported incremental staffing gains for Crossroads and school-based behavioral-health counselors, early outcome measures showing increased awareness of supports, and plans to deploy wireless vape detectors framed as a path to referrals and intervention, not punishment.
Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) officials told the Local Government Coordinating Commission that programs funded by opioid-settlement dollars are expanding but still facing staffing and measurement challenges.
Kylie Turner, APS director of prevention and intervention, said the district has filled 6 of 11 middle-school Crossroads counselor allocations and 10.5 of 14 behavioral-health counselor positions (a mix of 0.5 and 1.0 FTEs). Turner reported 249 individual Crossroads student contacts and 73 parent-involvement (PIP) sessions through Feb. 28, and 605 students served by behavioral-health therapists with 1,266 total contacts in…
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