Mental health board seeks grant

MRDD seeks mental health grant

YOUNGSTOWN — Triggered by the Virginia Tech massacre, the Mahoning County Mental Health Board is seeking a $50,000 grant to train Youngstown State University personnel to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness.

It was on April 16 that 32 people were shot and killed, and many more wounded, in two separate attacks about two hours apart on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va.

The killer, Seung-Hui Cho, who committed suicide after the shootings, had been diagnosed with and treated for a severe anxiety disorder beginning in middle school, had been accused of stalking two female students, and was declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice.

Toni Notaro, county mental health administrative director, said a letter of inquiry was sent to the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation in Hudson about the grant. She said the board should learn early in October if the foundation will consider its proposal.

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