The law includes a school report card that will provide information on how many counselors, social workers, nurses and psychologists are in each school, starting in October 2024.
On Thursday, Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation aimed at improving the way Illinois schools address student trauma.
That includes a school report card that will provide information on how many counselors, social workers, nurses and psychologists are in each school, starting in October 2024.Experts say schools should have one psychologist for every 500 students. But as a state House committee heard last month, that ratio is much higher in Illinois.
"When a school psychologist is the only school psychologist for a large number of students, often the role becomes very narrow. And they spend a lot of time responding just to crises rather than providing health promotion and early intervention and the services that they would want to and are trained to provide," said Dr. Brenda Huber, co-chair of Governmental Affairs for the Illinois School Psychologists Association.
"In the state of Illinois, school psychologists have been the most underproduced educational professionals for quite a few years now. So the problem pre-existed COVID, but, since COVID, we have seen the mental health needs of youth just explode," Huber said. "Schools operate on a public health model, which means what we do for all the students should be enough for 85% to do well.
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