You’re listening to the Promise Podcast.  Produced by the El Dorado School District, created by educators for our community, to highlight education across our state.  I’m your host and middle school librarian, Chelsey Turner.  I’m also joined by my co-host Katie Sandifer.

Today’s episode is all about mental health.  As we know this pandemic has taken an area that is already such a dire need in education to the next level.  Today I sat down with Holly Billings, our Behavior Support Specialist and mental health coordinator for the district and Cliff Preston with integrity health.  We discussed a really neat opportunity coming to our district and districts around the state and that’s  Telehealth.  Students and even staff can now receive mental health services remotely, which is really a game changer.  I can’t wait for you to hear from Holly and Cliff about how this came about and what they’re doing to help our students and staff.  It’s really very exciting.