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From the ECS State Policy Database
2007 State Policies / Activities

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The following summary includes policies enacted in 2007. This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the topic of interest. To view all, press the button located at the top labeled "Expand All."

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ILSigned into law 08/2007P-12Provides that, subject to appropriations, the state board of education must provide grants to the School Psychology Internship Consortium for aid in providing training programs and facilitating interns to improve the educational and mental health services of children in the state. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/95/HB/PDF/09500HB1363lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 1363
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet

ILAdopted 07/2007P-12Creates new Part of rules, "Children's Mental Health Initiative Grants." Subpart A, "School Mental Health Support Grants," (pages 136-141 of 201 http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume31_issue30.pdf) includes the following sections:

555.10 Purpose and Applicability
555.20 Eligible Applicants
555.30 Program Specifications
555.40 Application Procedure
555.50 Criteria for the Review of Initial Proposals
555.60 Allocation of Funds

Provides that programs will support students' mental health by:
(a) enhancing the recipients' capacity to identify and meet students' needs for early, coordinated mental health intervention services in "natural" settings;
(b) contributing to the development of a mental health support system for students that is integrated with community mental health agencies and other agencies and
systems that serve children; and
(c) reducing the stigma associated with mental health and mental illness within the school community.

Provides that eligible applicants for both "School Mental Health Support Grants" and "Grants for Implementation of Social and Emotional Learning Standards" (below) include school districts, public university laboratory schools, charter schools and area vocational centers. Provides that it is expected that 20% of the available funds will be allocated to the Chicago Public Schools and that approximately 25% of grant recipients will be districts that either operate only one school or enroll no more than 1,000 students.

Subpart B, "Grants for Implementation of Social and Emotional Learning Standards," (pages 141-147 of 201 http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/index/register/register_volume31_issue30.pdf) includes the following sections:

555.110 Purpose and Applicability
555.120 Eligible Applicants
555.130 Program Specifications – Planning and Training Grants
555.135 Program Specifications – Implementation Grants
555.140 Application Procedure
555.150 Criteria for the Review of Planning and Training Grant Proposals
555.155 Criteria for the Review of Implementation Grant Proposals
555.160 Allocation of Funds
555.APPENDIX A Social and Emotional Learning Standards

Provides that the goal of each planning and training grant project is the development of a three-year plan for implementation of the state social and emotional learning (SEL) standards. Provides each participating school must establish an implementation team responsible for:

(1) Participation in training and technical assistance activities made available by the state-designated regionally based training entity
(2) Conducting at least two family education sessions on the social and emotional learning standards
(3) Identifying gaps in available resources and services related to social and emotional learning
(4) Preparing a plan setting forth a specific, three-year sequence of steps for moving toward the comprehensive integration of the social and emotional learning standards into the participating schools' educational programs, school environment, and other mental health supports.
Title: 23 IAC 555.10 thru .160, and Appendix A
Source: www.cyberdriveillinois.com

MDSigned into law 05/2007P-12Requires the State Superintendent of Schools, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to establish and promote in schools in the State a public awareness campaign related to self-injury by cutting; provides for the components of the campaign; authorizes the State Superintendent to use specified resources to carry out the provisions of the Act.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/hb/hb1046t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1046
Source: Maryland

TNSigned into law 05/2007P-12Encourages the use of a certain number of in-service training days. Such training shall place an emphasis on understanding the warning signs of early on-set mental illness in children and adolescents and may be conducted by school counseling personnel (psychologists, social workers, guidance counselors, health faculty), by mental health clinicians or by approved personnel from mental health advocacy organizations using curricula approved by the department of education and the department of mental health and developmental disabilities.
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Chapter/PC0247.pdf
Title: H.B. 933
Source: http://www.legislature.state.tn.us

IDSigned into law 03/2007P-12Defines "teens at risk" as public school students in grades 7-12 who have been identified as expressing or exhibiting indications of depression, suicidal inclination, emotional trauma, substance abuse or other behaviors or symptoms that indicate the existence of, or that may lead to, the development of mental illness or substance abuse. Authorizes the department of health and welfare, the state department of education, the department of juvenile corrections, counties, courts and local school districts to collaborate in planning and developing mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment and recovery support services and individual service plans for teens at risk.

Creates new section creating a 3-year pilot teen early intervention mental health and substance abuse specialist program. Provides that teen early intervention specialists are to work with individual at-risk teens to offer group counseling, recovery support, suicide prevention and other mental health and substance abuse counseling services to teens as needed, regardless of mental health diagnosis. Provides that districts wishing to have a teen early intervention mental health and substance abuse specialist placed in the district may apply may apply to the department of health and welfare for such placement.

For 3-year period beginning at the start of the 2008 school year, directs the department of health and welfare to work with districts where teen early intervention specialists have been placed to gather data on the effectiveness of this program. Session Law Chapter 309
http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1147.html
Title: S.B. 1147
Source: www3.state.id.us

MNSigned into law 03/2007P-12Ensures a student's ability to participate in league-sponsored activities after completing licensed treatment programs for alcohol or substance abuse, mental illness or emotional disturbance.
http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/bin/unoff_eng.php?session=ls85&version=latest&session_number=0&session_year=2007&number=sfb1499
Title: S.B. 1499
Source: http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us

UTSigned into law 03/2007P-12Prohibits school personnel from conducting a psychiatric or behavioral health evaluation or mental health screening, test, evaluation, or assessment of a student, except if required under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; prohibits school personnel from making certain medical recommendations for a student, including the use of psychotropic medications, or requiring that a student take or continue to take a psychotropic medication as a condition for attending school; prohibits school personnel from making a child abuse or neglect report to authorities based solely or primarily on the basis that a parent or guardian refuses to consent to: (i) a psychiatric, psychological, or behavioral treatment for a child, including the administration of a psychotropic medication to a child; or (ii) a psychiatric or behavioral health evaluation of a child, unless a failure to take action would present a serious, imminent risk to the child's safety or the safety of others; prohibits a court or the Division of Child and Family Services from removing a child from parental custody based on a parent's refusal to consent to the administration of psychotropic medications or a psychiatric or behavioral health evaluation or treatment of a child. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/hbillenr/hb0202.htm
Title: H.B. 202
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/

WYSigned into law 03/2007P-12Allows funds to be appropriated for developmental preschool mental health or social-emotional development services and training. http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/Enroll/SF0034.pdf
Title: S.B. 34
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2007/bills.htm

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