District Is First to Employ Emotional Support Coaches

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The Peekskill (N.Y.) City School District has launched a pilot program to place school personnel on the bench and in the locker room at high school varsity football and girls' and boys' basketball games to act as coaches who help athletes calmly deal with adversity and anxiety.

As reported by Rockland/Westchester Journal News, the district has allocated $13,000 in grant money to pay for four emotional support coaches. The four, who are already district employees, are trained in what's called social emotional learning. The Board of Education unanimously approved the program's creation and allocation of funds earlier this month.

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