{"id":269527,"date":"2026-08-21T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269527\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:10:10","slug":"more-than-1-34-million-awarded-for-school-safety-mental-health-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269527\/","title":{"rendered":"More than $1.34 million Awarded for school safety, mental health \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published August 21. 2026 09:17AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">State Rep. Gary Day (R-187th) on Friday announced four school districts in his legislative district will be awarded more than $1.34 million in School Safety and Mental Health Grants for physical security enhancements, behavioral health supports or both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cStudents should be able to walk into school each morning knowing the adults around them have the tools needed to keep them safe and help them through difficult times,\u201d Day said. \u201cThese grants will allow local school leaders to put resources where they will do the most good, whether that means improving security, expanding mental health support or addressing both priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The grants are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022         East Penn School District &#8211; $449,924.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022         Northern Lehigh School District &#8211; $173,074.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022         Northwestern Lehigh School District &#8211; $185,547.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u2022         Parkland School District &#8211; $533,650.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The noncompetitive grant program is administered by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. Each school district receives a base allocation of $100,000, plus additional funding calculated using its 2024-25 adjusted average daily membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 21. 2026 09:17AM State Rep. Gary Day (R-187th) on Friday announced four school districts in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-269527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}