Stockbridge Community Schools announces addition of school nurse and social worker

Information from Stockbridge Community Schools

The Stockbridge Community School’s children, youth, teachers and staff received a big boost when the Ingham County Board of Commissioners fully supported and funded a proposal to add a school nurse and a school social worker to Stockbridge for two years,  The nurse and social worker will help to mitigate the academic, emotional, social, and medical effects of the COVID pandemic, by providing testing, contact tracing, health education, and emotional support to the students in the schools and their families. The positions are fully funded for two years by the grant that was approved by the Board of Commissioners from funding provided by the government under the American Rescue Plan.

Superintendent Brian Friddle said “adding these services will allow our teachers and administrators to refocus their time and efforts on administering the schools and teaching our children, instead of doing testing and contact tracing.  The funding allows us to increase social work services for children having behavioral and emotional problems and to add nursing services for all students–services that Stockbridge has not had in the schools for many years.  County Commissioner Randy Schafer and community advocate Dr. Virginia Rezmierski worked diligently on behalf of Stockbridge to gain this recognition and support for our schools.”

Congratulations to everyone who worked on this grant proposal.