Advocates for "mental health days" in K-12 schools testified before New Hampshire's House Education Committee as the state weighs implementing them in its public school system.
New Hampshire could join 12 other states in allowing kindergarten through 12th-grade students to take excused absences from school to deal with mental and behavioral health issues.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) A woman whose teenage son died by suicide in 2017 urged New Hampshire lawmakers Tuesday to pass legislation allowing kindergarten through 12th-grade students excused absences from school to deal with mental and behavioral health issues.
Small children are landing in the hospital because of accidental poisoning from ingesting medication meant for adults. Experts are working to give households the tools they need to keep kids out of medicines which could potentially harm them. Tonya Jernigan, licensed social worker for the Division of Pediatric Forensic Medicine at the University of Kentucky Clinic, said it is not just illicit substances children can get their hands on, and pointed to cases where they accidentally consumed medications meant for their grandparents or caregivers. .