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The Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Services Board of Logan and Champaign Counties will ask voters in November to consider a measure that would place mental health professionals in the school systems.
Currently, MHDAS provides clinicians who spend one day per week at each of the schools, which can result in long delays for students to see a mental health professional, Executive Director Tammy Nicholl told the board.
The goal is to create two teams of four individuals — one for each county — which can focus on preventing potential situations through early intervention. Each team would include a licensed clinical therapist, a behavior specialist, a case manager and a prevention specialist.
To fund the plan, the board will ask voters to approve a 0.3-mill levy request that is expected to generate $616,000 a year for three years.
The MHDAS board already has one levy on the books, a 0.7-mill issue that generates about $1.4 million a year. That issue runs through 2021 and the board voted at a special meeting Monday on a plan to consolidate the two levies into a single issue at that time.
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