Southfield and Hazel Park schools receive three-year grant for support services

Southfield and Hazel Park colleges have been awarded a three-year, $4.6 million grant from the Ballmer Group to broaden help companies.

The companies will likely be supplied by way of Oakland Connects, a free provincial program that helps residents navigate well being care, housing and non-medical helps equivalent to meals and transportation help.

With the grant, Oakland County Well being and Human Providers will rent six extra neighborhood well being employees who will likely be stationed in each counties.

The companies of well being professionals are meant for grownup members of every family, not college students. They are going to present one-on-one help, assets and referrals associated to housing and utilities, medical insurance, meals help, transportation, job coaching assets and psychological well being.

“All households deserve entry to the companies and helps they should thrive,” stated Hazel Park Superintendent Amy Wilcox. “By means of our partnership with the Ballmer Group and Oakland County, now we have already linked households to assets they may not have in any other case acquired. We’re grateful for our continued work to broaden neighborhood faculties in Hazel Park for the advantage of all households.”

“On behalf of Southfield Public Faculties, I want to specific our honest because of the Ballmer Group for his or her extraordinary generosity and dedication to the well-being of the neighborhood,” stated Southfield Superintendent Jennifer Martin-Inexperienced. “Their funding creates a robust alternative for Oakland County to broaden the deployment of neighborhood well being employees – an initiative that may strengthen the well being, stability and success of households in our area.”