GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A grant is helping break down barriers for some Green Bay elementary school students.
Howe Elementary School received a $150,000 grant from the Brown County United Way Thursday.
Principal Amy Kallioinen says the grant will make a great impact on not only the students, but families and staff.
“With this large, generous gift, our work can continue so that when our kids arrive at school, they are having the best chance possible. We are really looking at what ways we use partnerships and funding to leverage to reduce the barriers that our kids come into school with.”
The grant will be used for a number of things, including home visit training for teachers as a way to boost attendance.
“Because research will show the more we’re in the neighborhoods with our kids and families, the more comfortable they are to come in to school,” Kallioinen explained.
And the grant will allow the school and the Howe Community Resource Center to add an additional mental health counselor to serve students.
Right now there is a full year waiting list of students needing access to the one mental health counselor, so Kallioinen says a second counselor is a big help.
The Brown County United Way first partnered with the Green Bay Area Public School District in 2018 as part of its strategy to ensure every student is successful.
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