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 ...

The Trump administration is cutting $1 billion in grants that support student mental health. That has educators worried.

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.

About 71 million adults are enrolled in Medicaid now. And most of them — around 92% — are working, caregiving, attending school or disabled. Earlier estimates of the budget bill from the Congressional ...

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 ...

Schools will likely have to lay off social workers and counselors, and college programs designed to train mental health providers ... The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act came on the heels of ...