introduced the Supporting Trauma Informed Instructional Practices Act, legislation that authorizes grants to improve trauma support services and mental health care for children and youth in educational settings.
Introduce legislation to authorize grants to improve trauma support services and mental health care for children and youth in educational settings.
Occurrences
Evidence
The article reports that Reps. Rosa DeLauro, Jahana Hayes, and Brian Fitzpatrick reintroduced the Expanding Access to Mental Health Services in Schools Act (H.R. 7108). It says the bill would help high-need school systems recruit, hire, retain, and diversify mental health professionals, and Hayes said it would increase the number of qualified mental health professionals available to students and provide preventative care and crisis intervention.
Assessments
The promise was to introduce legislation authorizing grants for trauma support and mental health care for children and youth in schools. Evidence indicates Jahana Hayes reintroduced the Expanding Access to Mental Health Services in Schools Act, a bill designed to provide grant support so school systems can recruit and retain mental health professionals and expand school-based services. Because the promised action was introduction of legislation rather than enactment, this concrete sponsorship step satisfies the pledge. The available evidence does not clearly establish whether this occurred in the same term as the original promise, so timing is best left unknown.