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On this West Virginia Morning, students and their parents across West Virgnia can now access free online mental health resources. That’s after a pilot program in five counties via a partnership between the West Virginia’s Department of Education and the Cook Center for Human Connection so impressed education officials was expanded to all of West Virginia’s 55 counties in May.
Also, Ohio County author Marc Harshman has spent decades writing poetry and children’s books and has served as West Virginia’s state poet laureate since 2012. This year, Harshman was recognized by Shepherd University as the 2024 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence. He sat down with reporter Jack Walker to discuss his work and Appalachian literature
West Virginia Morning is a production of West Virginia Public Broadcasting, which is solely responsible for its content.
Support for our news bureaus comes from Shepherd University and Marshall University School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Maria Young produced this episode.
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