(1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2) "Behavioral health services" means prevention, intervention, and treatment services for the social-emotional, psychological, behavioral, and physical health of students, including mental health and substance abuse disorders.

(3)(i) "Community-partnered school behavioral health services program" means a program that provides behavioral health services to students by community behavioral health providers in partnership with public schools and families that augment the behavioral health services and supports provided by public schools.

(ii) "Community-partnered school behavioral health services program" does not include school-based health centers.

(1) The Department, in consultation with the Maryland Department of Health, county boards, and other interested stakeholders, as determined by the Department, shall develop and implement a standardized reporting system to determine the effectiveness of community-partnered school behavioral health services programs.

(2) The standardized reporting system developed under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall use measures that collect data on the outcomes of students who receive behavioral health services from community-partnered school behavioral health services programs, including a student's academic, behavioral, social, and emotional functioning and progress.

(1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.

(2) "Behavioral health counseling services" means prevention, intervention, and treatment services for the social-emotional, psychological, behavioral, and physical health of students, including mental health and substance abuse disorders.

(3) "Health care provider" has the meaning stated in § 20-104 of the Health–General Article.

(1) The Maryland Department of Health, in conjunction with the Department, shall recommend best practices for county boards of education to provide to students:

(i) Behavioral needs assessments; and

(ii) Individualized or group behavioral health counseling services with a health care provider through a school-based health center or through community partnered school-based behavioral health services.

(2) In applying for a grant under this subsection, a local school system shall provide evidence of how external funding will be maximized to provide students with behavioral health and wraparound services, including through the submission of claims to health insurance plans, if applicable, for any covered health services.

(1) Conducting training for students and school personnel on de-escalation of situations and identifying and reporting behaviors of concern;

(2) Conducting training of assessment teams;

(3) Conducting school safety evaluations;

(4) Establishing formal and anonymous mechanisms for reporting safety concerns;

(5) Reimbursing local law enforcement agencies for school resource officer training provided by the Center;

(6) Enrolling school security employees in training provided by the Center;

(7) Developing plans to deliver school-based behavioral health and other wraparound services to students who exhibit behaviors of concern, including establishing systems to maximize external funding for services;

(8) Outreach to the broader school community to improve school safety, including to heighten awareness of existing mental health services and other services;

(9) Providing information to students and parents on traveling safely to and from school, including data related to bus and pedestrian safety, strategies for ensuring personal safety, efforts of the local school system to improve safety, and information on available options for reporting incidents and concerns; and

(10) Assisting local school systems to improve and monitor traffic control measures in the immediate vicinity of schools to reduce the potential for pedestrian and vehicle accidents.

(1) Supporting local community efforts to establish or expand school-based health center capacity in primary care, behavioral health, and oral health;

(2) Integrating school-based health centers into existing and emerging patient-centered models of care;

(3) Promoting the inclusion of school-based health centers in networks of managed care organizations and commercial health insurance carriers;

(4) Advancing the public health goals of State and local health officials;

(5) Promoting the inclusion of school-based health centers into networks of school health services and coordinated student service models for the range of services offered in school settings;

(6) Supporting State and local initiatives to promote student success;

(7) Reviewing and revising best practice guidelines; and

(8) Supporting the long-term sustainability of school-based health centers.

(2) Enhances awareness of mental health and promotes positive, healthy behaviors;

(3) Provides school-based prevention and universal and targeted interventions for students with mental health and behavioral health concerns.