Senate Chairman Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City), Health Secretary Dr. Laura Herera Scott and Sen Katie Fry Hester (D-Howard and Montgomery) promote a grant opportunity to provide better behavior health services in schools on 19 September 2023. Daniel J. Photo by Brown.
About $ 111 million will be distributed this year to provide a variety of health care services to families and their children as part of the blueprint of Maryland’s Future Education Reform Plan.
It is based on 129 grants presented to the Maryland Community Health Resource Commission, which are made up of recommendations by the Consortium on coordinated community support. The Commission serves as a fiscal agent for the Consortium, which was established in 2021 by the Mahasabha as part of the blueprint scheme.
Consortium is responsible for developing a statewide outline to expand access to students for students from Maryland. The $ 111 million comes from the blueprint of the Future Fund in Maryland.
According to the Consortium, “The programs will start this spring and will continue until next year.” The group plans to organize an online meeting to officially authorize the expenditure on Tuesday morning.
About two hours later, Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) will lead a news conference to announce and discuss them in more detail. Other people set to attend the news conference are Maryland Health Secretary Laura Heera Scott; Edward Casemier, a former state senator who is the chairman of the Health Resource Commission; Consortium President David Rudolf, a platform state representative; Sen Katie Fry Hester (D-Hover and Montgomery); And del. Eric Ebarsol (D-Baltimore County), who is also a former teacher.
Casemier, Hester and Abbarsol also work on the consortium. The roster also consists of former Maryland Superintendent Mohammad Chaudhary, but he chose not to search for another term in September. Kerry Wright currently serves as the Interim Superintendent.
When the consortium met in November, it evaluated about 258 project proposals from all 24 school systems, which were a total of $ 380 million. During that time, the project request ranged from $ 37,000 to about $ 18 million.
According to the commission’s list of 129 grants on 9 February, one of the largest awards, the Shepard Prat Health System is $ 4 million for Inc.
Shapeard Pratt Health will receive at least $ 6.5 million additional to offer similar services in Howard ($ 2.5 million), Prince George ($ 2 million) and Washington ($ 2 million) counties.
Thrive behavior health was awarded $ 6.7 million for prevention of drug abuse, early childhood intervention, parents and other services at Annie Arundel County.
Some other organizations are included to receive the award:
- $ 825,000 to provide school-wide performances on small group programming for students, parents and carers, Alegony College-based evidence-based evidence-based stress relief equipment and students, parents, parents and carers.
- $ 775,000 to provide school-based behavior consultation after Garate County Health Department-School and Telehaalth Services. Also to students to offer transport for behavior health services.
- $ 1.9 million to provide assistance to children and families and colleagues and colleagues in Central Maryland.
The majority-black jurisd by Prince George County provided about 19 grants for community health agencies, non-profit organizations and other groups for about $ 25 million.
A total of 11 grants of $ 12 million will go to Johns Hopkins University, non -profit organizations and other groups in Baltimore city.
Frederick County had the second highest number of grant award winners at 12, in total $ 7.6 million.
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