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Apr 17, 2013
S. 689 adds Mental Health Awareness and Improvement to the No Child Left Behind Act #Education #Mentalhealth #News
S. 689 would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (the ESEA, commonly referred to, in its most recently authorized form, as the No Child Left Behind Act) to support school-based mental health programs and other activities. CBO estimates that implementing those amendments would require appropriations of about $100 million a year. The bill also would amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the appropriation of $105 million for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018 for suicide prevention and mental health services.
