Under Senate Bill 121 by Senator Larry Selders, D-Baton Rouge, schools must conduct the evaluations every fall. Students ...

Proposal to include partial hospitalization services is moving forward, but only after lawmakers removed a key component to ...

BATON ROUGE — A proposal to expand Louisiana’s Medicaid coverage for mental ... Bill 96, authored by Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Covington, would require the Louisiana Department of Health to ...

Legislative sessions can sometimes feel like the movie "Groundhog's Day" for advocates pushing for stronger mental health ...

Todd Young and two Senate colleagues have reintroduced the Mental Health Excellence in Schools Act. The American School Counselor Association recently reported that Indiana has a student-to-counse ...

Thursday to approve a $53.5 billion budget without objecting to any of the major changes the Senate had made earlier this week.

The grant is the result of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which lawmakers passed in response to growing concerns about student mental health after a school shooting in Uvalde ...

After Uvalde, school mental health grants had bipartisan support ... The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act came on the heels of the devastating 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where an ...