Photo: Marianna McMurdock
Kids were grieving – more than Baldwin Union Free School District counselors, teachers and administrators had ever realized. Now, Baldwin is ready to support them. A new, free wellness center is open to all students each weeknight, staffed by child therapists and psychologists. From January through March this year, the center hosted over 600 sessions. Two peer bereavement groups hosted 11 children for six weekly sessions during the school year; another ran this summer, with children meeting for 90 minutes weekly grouped by age. By third grade, all students have had lessons on wellness tools. In 2019, in the district where more than a quarter are considered low-income, the graduation rate was 95%. By 2023, it grew to 99% — 12 % above the US national average.
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