Madison School District, UW-Madison team up to expand diversity in student mental health services


Madison School District, UW-Madison team up to expand diversity in student mental health services


Madison Public Schools will be getting an influx of diverse school psychologists under a new initiative the district and UW-Madison have announced.

With the help of a $6 million federal grant, the university will train 24 additional school psychology graduate students over five years. The students will train in Madison schools and complete three years of service in a high-needs local school after graduation, according to Wednesday’s announcement...
...“Together, we will recruit and train school psychologists from diverse backgrounds that reflect the community, identities, races, ethnicities, abilities, languages and cultures reflected in Madison schools,” said Katie Eklund, a researcher in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and an associate professor of educational psychology in UW-Madison’s School of Education....
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