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Students, school health groups press Senate to preserve school-based health and mental health funding
Summary
Students and representatives from school-based health and mental-health organizations testified in support of maintaining proposed funding in HB 96 for school-based health centers, youth mental health programs and a request for a data hub to measure center performance.
Students from Meadowdale Career Technology Center and multiple nonprofit and provider witnesses told the Senate Health Committee the state budget should maintain or increase investments in school-based health centers and youth mental health services.
Kevin O'Donnell introduced students who described bullying, depression and substance-use pressures in schools and asked legislators to fund counseling, peer supports and alternatives to incarceration. "My name is Maya France. Today I will be talking about mental health. I suffer from depression," one student…
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