Section 19 of the Children’s Mental Health Act

Section 19 of the Children’s Mental Health Act states:

There shall be a task force on behavioral health and public schools, within the department of early education and care, to build a framework to promote collaborative services and supportive school environments for children, to develop and pilot an assessment tool based on the framework to measure schools’ capacity to address children’s behavioral health needs, to make recommendations for using the tool to carry out a statewide assessment of schools’ capacity, and to make recommendations for improving the capacity of schools to implement the framework (read more).

Related information

The Final Report of the Behavioral Health and Public Schools Task Force (2011)