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OSPI, CoLab outline codesigned school behavioral health framework tied to HB 1634
Summary
OSPI and UW CoLab described a codesign of a statewide training and technical-assistance framework required by House Bill 1634 to help K–12 schools support student behavioral health while preserving schools' education role; the draft framework will go out for public comment mid-July.
OSPI and University of Washington CoLab presenters told the Children & Youth Behavioral Health Work Group that a codesigned framework will guide training and technical assistance for K–12 student behavioral health under House Bill 1634.
The presenters said the framework aims to help schools perform key functions — safe and supportive environments, prevention and early identification, connection to community services, and crisis response — while recognizing schools are education organizations, not health-care providers. Christian Stark of OSPI said the bill requires OSPI and educational service districts to collaborate with community and system partners to develop and then use a framework to optimize delivery of existing training and supports.
Sarah Walker of CoLab described a discovery and codesign process with a core design team, a wider advisory team, youth-engagement workshops and a community sounding board of roughly 400 signups. Chrissy Johnson of OSPI said the work will produce both a program implementation framework and a set of insights about gaps that the framework alone cannot address.
Presenters said the framework will identify system needs, map resources, show how to braid existing funding, and define roles for schools, districts and community partners. They emphasized continuous improvement and asked members to help recruit diverse feedback during an expected public-comment window in mid-July.
Members asked specifically about rural-school representation, Spanish-language outreach and connections to primary care. Presenters said they are working to include rural districts and are producing a Spanish-language version of community feedback tools; they also said primary care perspectives have been consulted in discovery but will be further engaged during public review.
The work group was asked to help circulate the public-comment opportunities and to flag gaps in representation so feedback can inform revisions before the framework is finalized.
