Mental Health in Texas Schools 10:15. After eight students and two teachers were murdered in 2018 at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, Governor Greg Abbott vowed to find solutions for the ...

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods—communities with low rates of high school graduation and employment, low ...

Following up on an administration goal, Lake Forest High School has received a series of recommendations on how to improve mental health and special education services. Last month, the school ...

One of the grants, the School-Based Mental Health Services Grant Program, provided ISBE initially with $2.97 million in fiscal year 2022 to increase the number of credentialed mental health ...

For many survivors of school shootings, their mental health can continue deteriorating over time and have a severe impact on their normal development, school functioning and relationships.

The Consortium on Coordinated Community Supports will fund 107 programs to help combat anxiety, depression and other ...

Mental wellness is a significant issue for teens. According to the CDC, in 2021, 44% of teens nationwide felt persistently sad or hopeless – the highest rate ever recorded. Locally, from 2019 ...

One in every five said they seriously considered suicide, and 9% of high school students attempted suicide. “In the past, school nurses were too often siloed into just the medical side of things,” ...