The Park County School District 1 Board of Trustees recently approved a couple changes in personnel.

After meeting in executive session, the trustees accepted the resignation of Diana Whitney, a counselor at Westside Elementary School. Whitney’s resignation is effective Dec. 4.

Filling her position will be Christa Buhler, a support staff social worker, whose effective hire date is Dec. 16.

The board also announced the hiring of Adrienne Cronebaugh as a community mental health worker and grant coordinator. In October, the district received a grant to provide mental health services to students. Cronebaugh will liaison between the district and the care providers, ensuring that the requirements for medical record-keeping and coding are met while working to improve access to mental health care and essentially managing the grant that makes her positon possible. It will also fund an additional licensed counselor for the district.

The grant was earned in a joint application with the Campbell County School District in Gillette and Fremont County School District 1 in Lander. Some of the job requirements, such as coding may be shared with the other districts, since Campbell County has an in-house medical clinic and already employs a medical coder.

Cronebaugh’s experience includes serving as director of the American Heart Association of Ohio and as executive director of the Kootenai Environmental Alliance in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho.

The grant is for five years and provides $412,500 annually to provide services to students in the school district. The district will work with Powell Valley Healthcare as well as Yellowstone Behavioral Health, Superintendent Jay Curtis said when the grant was announced. YBH has offices in Powell and Cody.