Bibb School District receives grant for mental health resources

The Bibb County School District is one of three Georgia school districts to receive a grant for mental health resources.

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The bibb county school district is one of three georgia school districts receiving a grant for mental health resources.

The grant is called a project aware grant.

It's worth a total of nearly 1 point 8 million dollars over a five-year period.

According to assistant superintendent of student affairs jamie cassady, the district will receive close to $360-thousand dollars each year.

Cassady says the money will help provide mental health training for staff, and add more mental health clinicians along with more resources for families.

The grant helps students with what we call trauma.

And trauma is pretty much when kids have had ongoing exposure to their early childhood development, to abiuses, neglect, poverty, homelessness, or violence within the community.

And then if you c1 3 b13 want to throw covid on there that just multiplied or made that more complex cassady says