Grant to help reservation schools respond to youth suicides

A U.S. Department of Education Office of Safe and Healthy Students grant of $107,631 will be used to hire additional counselors at Crazy Horse School as part of a program to help Pine Ridge Reservation schools respond to a spate of suicides and attempted suicides by young people in recent months.

The grant is the third Project School Emergency Response to Violence (SERV) grant to be awarded to a Pine Ridge Reservation school since 2010.

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