From WNKY40

“GLASGOW Ky.- A grant worth $14,000 means more opportunities for staff and students at four Barren County schools when it comes to education on substance abuse, and mental health. Thanks to a grant from the Bright Coalition, Austin Tracy and Red Cross Elementary along with Barren County Middle and High Schools can now begin to use the funding for that purpose.

“What this funding will do is put more materials in the hands of our counselors, our mental health workers, and they’ll use this to get materials to support those students as they do counseling with them,” said, Heather Gardner, the grant writer for Barren County.

Services have already been laid out. One of those resources is Botvin LifeSkills Training, which is an evidence-based substance abuse training program. Barren County Middle School can now also fund a program called Sources of Strength, which is a research based program to help students with a combination of other factors like mental health and healthy activities.”

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