February 3rd, 2023 by WCBC Radio

In 2021, the Maryland General Assembly included language in the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, to create a new Maryland Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports to help meet student behavioral health needs and other related challenges. The Consortium has three purposes: supporting the development of coordinated community supports partnerships to meet student behavioral health needs; provide expertise for the development of best practices in the delivery of student behavioral health services; and to provide technical assistance to local school systems to support positive classroom environments and the closing of achievement gaps so that all students can succeed. Allegany County Board of Education member Tammy Fraley, during the board’s public meeting, provided an update and says the current priority is for each local system to identify and establish a hub for the program…