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District highlights mental‑health partners and PROSPER app; $111 million Maryland Consortium funding noted
Summary
Mental‑health coordinator Tiffany McFarland reviewed school‑based therapists, mobile crisis access, Botvin life‑skills groups and consortium grants; she said the Maryland Consortium directed large funding statewide and seven local partners applied for renewal.
Tiffany McFarland, the district’s mental‑health coordinator, described partnerships that bring therapists, peer navigators and life‑skills curricula into schools. “We do partner with Calvert County Health Department in a lot of different ways. They provide a school based therapist,” McFarland said, noting some elementary schools still lack therapists due to staffing.
McFarland reviewed the Maryland Consortium grant that made funding available through the state blueprint; she said the consortium provided $111,000,000 to expand behavioral‑health access for LEAs statewide and that seven Calvert County organizations received consortium grants and applied again (Calvert County Health Department, the Mediation Center, Easton Youth Center, Pathways, UNO Health, Boys & Girls Club and Barstow Acres). She also summarized vendor pilots: the PROSPER self‑care app is available to students (8th–12th grades), with about 335 district teams signed up, 34.2% of users logging in five or more times and more than 2,000 check‑ins recorded to date.
McFarland and Lewis said Hazel Health and UNO Health are partner candidates for expanded telehealth services if selected by the state grant round; the district will continue to coordinate family engagement and outreach through local care teams and health fairs.
