Four Bexar County school districts are getting federal pandemic aid to expand screening and treatment programs for at-risk students.
Students fill the hallways of Matthey Middle School, a Southside ISD campus. The district has been selected to receive $690,000 from Bexar County’s American Rescue Plan Act money.School districts that started offering mental health services to their students in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic are getting an infusion of cash from Bexar County’s federal pandemic relief.
“When I came to Commissioners Court in 2015, the attitude amongst superintendents around the state of Texas was that they did not want mental health clinicians in schools because they were afraid that parents would rebel and say, ‘I don’t want you telling me my kid is bipolar, or whatever diagnosis,'” said Commissioner Tommy Calvert .as parents and elected officials are divided on what role public schools should play in students’ lives.
“One of the big pushes that we are wanting to do is foster those immediate interventions, more of a holistic, case management type of intervention,” said Iveth Pacheco, who serves as Southside ISD’s social and emotional support coordinator.
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