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WVU, Concord University receive mental health services funds

West Virginia University and Concord University will be receiving money from the U.S. Department of Education Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program. The funding will support the training of school-based mental health service providers for employment in schools and local educational agencies across West Virginia. WVU will receive $990,226 and $605,591 will go to Concord University in Mercer County. U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced the $1,595,817 funding Tuesday. “Strengthening school-based mental ...

Gee announces scholarship, addresses budget challenge

WVU TODAY “The state of West Virginia University is strong,” President Gordon Gee said during his spring State of the University address on Monday. “And we will be even stronger in the decades to come, thanks to a concerted focus on what matters most.” Gee, calling on the unique ...

Humanities Center to host an evening with author Mike Ingram

WVU TODAY The West Virginia University Humanities Center will present an evening with author Mike Ingram from 7:30-9 p.m. Monday in the Downtown Library’s Milano Reading Room. “Ingram’s writing gives depth and perspective to those deep vulnerabilities that make us human. In his hands, we’re led into a poignant rendering of modern life with all its foibles, complexities, and quiet, hard-won joys,” humanities center director Renée Nicholson said. Ingram’s stories, essays and journalism have appeared in a number of publications, including PHOEBE, The North American ...

Public input sought to prioritize projects

The Town of Granville has been developing a comprehensive plan for the past year that will direct future development and detail high priority projects. The comprehensive plan recommendations and future growth plan will be available for the public to view at an Open House Workshop April 11 at Granville Town Hall, 1245 Main St. Residents are encouraged to attend the meeting and can drop in anytime from 6-7 p.m. for a few minutes, or to stay the full hour. The priority projects recommended in the plan have been developed to address a variety of issues and concerns raised by residents ...

Wheeling Hospital to continue taking PEIA

CHARLESTON — Wheeling Hospital, which indicated months ago that it would stop taking patients with state-provided insurance plans, now intends to accept those patients because of recent changes in the reimbursement rate. “They will be fully participating in PEIA,” said Jim Kaufman, president and chief executive of the West Virginia Hospital Association. On Friday, Gov. Jim Justice signed Senate Bill 268, which makes a range of changes to the Public Employees Insurance Agency, out of concern that the agency faces growing financial stress. Before the most recent legislative ...