Scholarship offered for mental health program

A local mental health council is offering assistance to get someone to help with mental health training in the area.

The Hill County Health Consortium’s Mental Health Local Advisory Council is offering a scholarship valued at about $5,000 to send someone to a week-long training program in Phoenix to become a certified instructor in Mental Health First Aid and is asking for application letters by Friday.

Amber Spring of Center for Mental Health, the chair of the council, said once a person becomes a certified instructor, they can provide training to groups or organizations such as law enforceme...