Cabarrus County school leaders pushing general assembly to help improve mental health in schools: Tuesday, March 14

Cabarrus County school leaders are working to ramp up mental health resources for students, with data showing the ratio of students to counselors is drastically lagging behind."We're sitting at one social worker to every 1,144 students, and we're supposed to be one to 250," the school district said. "There is a capacity issue."They say the goal is to ensure no students are being left out, and that there are enough psychologists and social workers to evenly cover buildings."The social workers and psychologists can't be there because we don't have enough of them to have them staffed one per school," the district said.READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/education/cabarrus-county-schools-mental-health-education/275-e477083c-dac9-4e85-8b97-d2e8387d20f3Three people have been convicted in relation to a child's death in December 2022.Hector Mendoza, 23, Savannah Brehm, 23, and Keith Strughill, 21, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and failing to properly secure a firearm that led to the death of Mendoza and Brehm's son, Michael Mendoza, 4, the Gaston County District Attorney's Office said on Monday.Hector Mendoza and Brehm received 36-month probation sentences. Strughill received a 24-month probation sentence. Initially, each of them were given prison sentences of 24 to 41 months but this was later suspended in exchange for the probation sentences.READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/parents-sentenced-to-probation-in-relation-to-childs-death-gaston-county-gastonia-north-carolina-michael-mendoza-hector-mendoza-keith-strughill/275-29170158-a3d4-462c-9871-75ed3c086caaWatch Wake Up Charlotte each weekday morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m. on WCNC Charlotte, and as always, join the conversation on social media using #WakeUpCLT!