{"id":14886,"date":"2014-10-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/w-va-schools-get-10m-in-mental-health-grants-to-curb-gun-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:56:21","slug":"w-va-schools-get-10m-in-mental-health-grants-to-curb-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/w-va-schools-get-10m-in-mental-health-grants-to-curb-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"W.Va. schools get $10M in mental health grants to curb gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia schools will receive nearly $10 million in federal grants to increase awareness of mental health among children and \u201ccurb gun violence,\u201d the state Department of Education announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain State is among 120 school districts or entire states across the nation to receive the Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education (AWARE) grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The project is part of President Obama\u2019s comprehensive \u201cNow is the Time\u201d campaign, launched last year, which focuses on gun control.<\/p>\n<p>The funding will support \u201cmental health first-aid training\u201d by training teachers to recognize and respond to mental health problems in children and will create partnerships between schools and communities focused on mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We understand the critical role sch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazette.com\/article\/20141029\/GZ01\/141029049\/1101\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia schools will receive nearly $10 million in federal grants to increase awareness of mental health among children and \u201ccurb gun violence,\u201d the state Department of Education announced Wednesday. &#8230; <a title=\"W.Va. schools get $10M in mental health grants to curb gun violence\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/w-va-schools-get-10m-in-mental-health-grants-to-curb-gun-violence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about W.Va. schools get $10M in mental health grants to curb gun violence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,194],"topic":[178],"news-type":[172],"class_list":["post-14886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-schools","tag-youth-and-teen","topic-mental-health","news-type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>W.Va. schools get $10M in mental health grants to curb gun violence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/w-va-schools-get-10m-in-mental-health-grants-to-curb-gun-violence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"W.Va. schools get $10M in mental health grants to curb gun violence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"West Virginia schools will receive nearly $10 million in federal grants to increase awareness of mental health among children and \u201ccurb gun violence,\u201d the state Department of Education announced Wednesday. ... 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