Addressing Trauma In Flooded Communities And Otters Return To Regional Waterways, This West Virginia Morning 54b3m

On this West Virginia Morning, schools became rallying points for community volunteer efforts during the February floods that hit West Virginia and Kentucky. As the flood damage is slowly repaired, children in those schools still carry trauma. Reporter Wendy Welch looks at one Mingo County school where an embedded behavioral health clinic offers to those students. And otters once inhabited every river system in Pennsylvania. But by the early 1900s, most of them were gone. The Allegheny Front’s Julie Grant s a wildlife biologist who has been working for decades to bring back river otters, and finds an environmental success story. West Virginia Morning is a production of West Virginia Public Broadcasting, which is solely responsible for its content. for our news bureaus comes from Shepherd University and Marshall University School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Maria Young produced this episode. Listen to West Virginia Morning weekdays at 7:43 a.m. on WVPB Radio or subscribe to the podcast and never miss an episode. #WVMorning 492a6p