Student Mental Health Days
School buses in Springfield, Illinois AP Photo/Seth Perlman
This year, Governor J.B Pritzker signed a new bill that will allow students to take off up to five mental health days from school starting in January. The mental health bill aims to address the stresses of the pandemic, remote learning, and social isolation in K-12 students. To talk about it, we were joined by a regional director for the Illinois School Psychologists Association, an elementary school social worker, and a licensed clinical social worker.
GUESTS:
Jyoti Kolodziej, Ph.D., NCSP
Licensed School Psychologist | Regional Director for Region 2 of the Illinois School Psychologists Association
Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW
Associate Professor of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago | Licensed Clinical Social Worker | Author of “Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention”
Yolande Cooke
Social Worker, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Urbana
Students across Illinois will be able to take up to five excused mental health days starting in January. More from @thatsjonnyfrank: https://t.co/sAe52mxT4N
— NPR's Education Team (@npr_ed) September 2, 2021
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