Pupil health: suicide prevention.
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Overview
This bill shifts the responsibility for developing a statewide suicide prevention training program from the State Department of Education to the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission. It also requires local educational agencies that conduct suicide risk screenings to report data on those screenings to the Department of Education, allowing for statewide analysis and policy development. The bill aims to improve pupil suicide prevention efforts by providing standardized training and tracking screening data.
Key provisions
- The Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission will develop an online suicide prevention training program.
- Local educational agencies (schools) that choose to conduct suicide risk screenings must report data on those screenings to the Department of Education.
- Reporting data includes pupil age, grade, gender, race, ethnicity, suicide risk severity, and identification of high-risk groups.
- The Department of Education will compile and post statewide aggregate screening data on its website.
- The training program must be evidence-based, trauma-informed, and culturally competent.
- The training program must align with the department’s model pupil suicide prevention policy.
- Data reporting must protect pupil privacy.
- The Department of Education will coordinate data collection with the Department of Health Care Services.
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