Is your child cra-a-a-a-zy? I mean, does he, like, suffer test anxiety? Not to worry, the federal government is coming to his rescue. Blue Ridge Community Health Services has received a $160,000 grant for telemental health for middle- and high-school students. The award is but a drop in the bucket of $95 million in grants availed, from a pot of $200 million, to 278 school health centers by Obamacare.

Also getting funds from the grant are Yancey County schools ($500,000), Mitchell County schools ($148,000), and the Bakersville Community Medical Clinic, ($126,000). Bakersville will use its funds for telemedicine equipment. Telemedicine is merely online communications with physicians and not, as one would expect, buttons transfusing virtual valium.

Schools are seeing more of a need for mental health services, [Blue Ridge Community Health Services COO Tammy] Greenwell said.

“We’ve just seen an increased need for it. I think if you ask the counselors and administrative staff, they just don’t have the capacity, the personnel to deal with this,” she said.

Students are dealing with problems ranging bullying to test anxiety.