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A new mental health fund will help students and teachers in Ashland, Talent and Phoenix

Ashland High School
Erik Neumann
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JPR
Ashland High School

The effects of the pandemic and the Almeda Fire are still impacting the children in the Rogue Valley. A new Lang Family Mental Health Fund will support the mental health of students in the Ashland, Talent, and Phoenix communities.

Diane Berry, a student counselor and child development specialist with the Ashland School District, joins the Exchange along with Britt Humphrey, a development specialist and Clinical Care Coordinator at Willow Wind School, to discuss the challenges students face in dealing with the simultaneous impact of both a global pandemic and the worst wildfire in southern Oregon history.

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