{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=1271F1E6-54A1-4125-B111-D5288F6576F1", "McConnell Secures More Than $6.8 Million to Support School Safety, Mental Health in Kentucky", "2022-10-26", "2022", "2022-10", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "LOUISVILLE, KY \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) will provide $6,897,034 to several Kentucky organizations to support school safety and mental health.\n\nThe funding for these grants comes from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which Senator McConnell helped lead to Senate passage earlier this year. The bill, which was endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police and the National Sheriffs\u2019 Association, provides funding for mental health treatment and school safety while preserving Americans\u2019 constitutional right to keep and bear arms.\n\n\u201cThe Bipartisan Safer Communities Act I supported earlier this year and the grants announced today will go a long way toward improving safety in Kentucky schools and addressing America\u2019s ongoing mental health crisis. I am proud this commonsense legislation is helping protect Kentucky\u2019s teachers and students,\u201d said Senator McConnell.\n\nThe funding announced today includes:\n\nHHS is awarding $832,991 through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Kentucky\u2019s state government will then grant that funding to organizations in the Commonwealth supporting mental health emergency preparedness and crisis response efforts.\n\nDOJ is awarding nearly $6 million to Kentucky organizations through the STOP School Violence Program and the School Violence Prevention Program to support school safety. The organizations receiving funding are listed below:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:34:28Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=1271F1E6-54A1-4125-B111-D5288F6576F1"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6733548361808062, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}