Grant money to expand mental health resources for Fresno Unified students

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's a programme designed by Fresno students, for Fresno students.

"We are moving to assistance amended intelligence wellness for students and pupil outcomes," says Wendy McCulley, President and CEO of Foundation for Fresno Unified Students.

The Foundation for Fresno Unified Students received a $50,000 assistance from Kaiser Permanente to assistance enactment intelligence wellness entree for students successful the Fresno Unified School District.

McCulley says past year, they heard from students astir the request for intelligence wellness support.

"We truly privation to perceive to what students accidental and what they need," she said.

Now, the ideas are turning into action.

"They're moving connected a societal media run to summation consciousness due to the fact that they truly privation to de-stigmatize intelligence health," McCulley said. "We're besides looking at, practically, however we tin summation intelligence wellness services. Maybe it's telehealth, possibly it's a mobile unit, and the Kaiser wealth volition assistance america analyse each of that.

McCulley says their enactment collaborates with the schoolhouse district.

Having much entree to intelligence wellness services is captious due to the fact that students are increasing up successful a much analyzable world.

"We wanted to marque definite these solutions are going to enactment for them," McCulley said. "You person to speech to the radical you're designing for you. You person to person them intimately progressive successful the process."

Students are not lone taking action, but besides gathering enactment skills.

McCulley says the extremity is to motorboat the societal media run by adjacent twelvemonth and to rotation retired the services wrong the adjacent 2 years.

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