A school district in Northern Colorado says it plans to cut mental health services for students by the end of the year after losing federal funding. The funding for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act was cut earlier this year, just a few years after Congress passed school-based mental health services following the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
The Poudre School District said it worked in partnership with Colorado State University to administer a five-year award of more than $9 million. That funding supported the placement of 29 CSU social work students who provide mental health support to students in Poudre Schools.
The $6 million in anticipated funding will no longer be available, meaning Poudre School District will lose at least 15 mental health workers in December…