Greenville County Schools has been awarded a $483,000 grant from the Greenville Health Authority to expand school-based counseling services. The funding will enable the district to hire 15 additional licensed mental health counselors. With this addition, two-thirds of the district now has permanent, district-hired counselors. The district has been working to hire its own mental health counselors for the past few years, after previously contracting out workers from the Greenville Department of Mental Health. The district hopes to eventually have district-hired mental health counselors in every school.