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Avon Grove considers teletherapy to replace Community in Schools as grant ends; trustees weigh relationship loss against ~$159,000 savings
Summary
District pupil-services staff proposed replacing in-person Community in Schools (CIS) support with a districtwide teletherapy contract that would maintain case management and psychiatry referrals while reducing next-year contracted services from roughly $922,000 to $762,000; trustees asked administrators to return with implementation details and equity safeguards.
The district’s pupil-services lead presented a cost-and-service review on April 7 that asked the board to consider a teletherapy model as the current community-partner grant for in-person Community in Schools (CIS) support comes to an end.
District staff framed the conversation as a fiscal and service-delivery question: continuing CIS in two buildings would require the district to fund 100 percent of the current community partner’s cost next year; switching to an online teletherapy vendor would…
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