A conflict resolution program for Montgomery Public Schools students has received $200,000 to continue.
) - A conflict resolution program for Montgomery Public Schools students has received $200,000 to continue after being piloted last year. Violence is a concern in many of Alabama’s larger cities, and the program is one way the capital city is working to combat the issue.
The program is currently offered to students who attend Percy Julian High School, Capitol Heights Middle school and an elementary school that feeds into Percy Julian High School. “The school system can hire these counselors or these coaches that will work with young people,” said state Rep. Phillip Ensler, who helped start the program. It‘s personal for Ensler, who saw the effects gun violence has on students during his time teaching at Percy Julian. It‘s one of the reasons why he’s excited that the program will be expanding. “It’s now going to be piloted up in Birmingham, and the hope is that we continue to expand it to other schools here in Montgomery and throughout the state,” Ensler said. Montgomery Public Schools Chief of Staff Jamie Wilson says they’re thankful for another year of funding because she says the program works. “We look obviously at different data points, some of those might be arguments or fighting, those things have gone down at Percy Julian. We also look at parent engagement,” Wilson said.Not reading this story on the WSFA News App? Get news alerts FASTER and FREE in the
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