LRB-0317/P2
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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0066 - Mental Health Training Program and Grant for Bullying Prevention
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
Bullying prevention grants
Under current law, DPI must award grants to a nonprofit organization to provide training and an online bullying prevention curriculum for pupils in grades kindergarten to eight. Beginning in the 2021-22 fiscal year, this bill requires DPI to award a bullying prevention grant to the nonprofit organization that received a bullying prevention grant in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years. In the 2019-20 and 2020-21 fiscal years, DPI awarded a bullying prevention grant to the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.
Mental health training program for school districts and independent charter schools
Under current law, DPI must provide trainings to school districts and independent charter schools on three specific evidence-based strategies to address student mental health: Screening, Brief Interventions, and Referral to Treatment; Trauma Sensitive Schools; and Youth Mental Health First Aid. This bill adds social and emotional learning to the list of evidence-based strategies on which DPI must provide trainings to school districts and independent charter schools.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 115.28 (45) of the statutes is amended to read:
115.28 (45) Grants for bullying prevention. From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (3) (eb), beginning in the 2021-22 school year, annually award grants a grant to a the nonprofit organization, as defined in s. 108.02 (19),
that received a grant under this subsection in the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years to provide training and an online bullying prevention curriculum for pupils in grades kindergarten to 8.
Section
2. 115.28 (63) (d) of the statutes is created to read:
115.28 (63) (d) Social and emotional learning.
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