Dane County, Wisconsin – $225,000 mental health funding was promised by Dane County for their continuing efforts in helping teachers in identifying and have access to urgent care for mental health issues that students are facing which often arise in the school environment particularly classrooms.
A pilot program named Building Bridges, has acquired the services of 6 mental health care experts, that would be assigned in the Sun Prairie, Verona, and also school Madison districts. The new medical staff will be based at mental urgent care clinics that would be set up at the central offices of each particular district.
The coordinator of the mental health efforts for the district Jeannette Deloya stated during a press conference last Thursday which was held at the Mendota Elementary School that in Madison County, the urgent care clinic workers will be devoted in providing mental health services to assist teachers in the elementary and mid school departments in the East High School area.
Catholic Charities, a local provider of mental health experts that was contracted by The Madison School District stated that all these three school districts can avail such services because of the said mental health funding. It will use to fund such experts that would provide health services like crisis intervention and also case management in both elementary and mid schools.
The contract with Catholic Charities do state that students that do need such services will be assured that mental urgent care near me would be available to assist them face their issues. Students in need of such services would be identified by school personnel.
Joe Parisi a County Executive stated that the mental health funding will be committed for a whole year as of the moment and is included in the overall budget for 2015 if the budget is actually passed as proposed. County Human Services director Lynn Green stated $100,000 were already spent by the county for services that started in September and would end in December this year.
Parisi also stated that the idea of placing a mental urgent care clinic in schools in the area sprung from previous discussions with personnel at Joining Forces for Families. It is a county agency which provides specialized services to neighborhoods that are challenged when it comes to dealing with such mental issues. He also added that the mental health funding is very much needed to help assist teachers without enough knowledge in identifying and handling mental health issues being faced by their students.
