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Since the plan was approved last April, Burbank officials have opened a mental health and wellness office at John Burroughs High School, trained teachers in suicide prevention and hired John Costanzo to serve as a mental health and wellness coordinator to oversee districtwide efforts.
A new study looking at the costs associated with suspending students in California finds that taxpayers are on the hook for billions of dollars each year due to the impact of suspensions, which can lower the high school graduation rate.
Ceres Unified uses extra funding for students in poverty, more than 80% of their students, to add staff at schools to teach coping and social skills, and improve mental health.
More than 5,000 incidents of suicidal behavior were reported in Los Angeles Unified in the last school year, an exponential jump from the 255 reported in 2010-2011 when the district, California’s largest, began tracking such incidents.
For the past 15 years, Hillsdale High School has worked in partnership with Stanford University’s School of Education and other groups such as the nonprofit National Equity Project to develop small learning communities that are challenging, engaging and equitable. That work has paid great dividends for the Hillsdale students.
Restorative justice circles, and other positive intervention and support systems are part of a new lexicon of redefining discipline and shaping appropriate behaviors in the classroom.
A state survey released Wednesday revealed that sexual dating violence, suicide ideation and bullying among Los Alamos students is higher than the state average.
All California middle and high schools will be required to provide mandatory suicide prevention education for children in grades 7 through 12, under a new bill headed to the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown.
Drug and alcohol use among Laguna Beach Unified School District students has shown a decrease, but results from the latest California Healthy Kids survey still raised alarm with the high school principal.
Results of a statewide survey of California school kids shows safety has improved and drug use is down. But the report also points out that depression risk remains "disturbingly high" among seventh, ninth and eleventh graders.