CHICO — Butte County schools will get $1.6 million more to address emotional trauma after the Camp Fire from a newly-approved Butte Strong Fund grant.
The nine community members on the Butte Strong Fund Committee approved a grant request of $1,611,270 from the Butte County Office of Education on Friday. The North Valley Community Foundation manages the fund.
The funding will allow more counselors to be hired, adds a parent outreach effort to provide support to families, provides training, allows the BCOE to hire a grant developer to seek additional funding sources, and continues intervention and referral efforts for students, parents and staff, according to a statement from the North Valley Community Foundation.
The BCOE’s Trauma Response and Recovery Project will cost more than $3 million and BCOE is seeking other funding partners.
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