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The Calgary Board of Education and Kindred Connections Society will place up to 12 counsellors in targeted schools over the next several months thanks to $2.4 million over two years from Alberta Education’s mental health pilot project.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“This program will be able to meet these students where they are, with one-stop counselling in the school. So if they’re having a bad day, where they say ‘I am not okay,’ we can sit down with them that same day.”Article contentOne-on-one counselling sessions will be the first of a three-pronged approach in targeted schools with high numbers of immigrants and refugee students, Williams added.
“This is especially important for those students who have experienced trauma in their home countries, or even in their early days in Canada,” Williams said. The third approach will include ongoing training and development sessions for parents, family members and teachers connected to immigrant students, so that when the two-year pilot is over, staff in schools are more empowered to identify and support students’ needs.Article contentAfter a flood of newcomers to Calgary this year, the CBE now has 5,254 non-Canadian students, including 828 refugees, and 1,021 Ukrainian students who have fled here since the Russian invasion began in February 2022.
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