Addressing mental health: NYC to screen students at all schools, add 500 social workers
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New York City teachers will screen their students for mental health needs this coming school year. The city also plans to hire about 500 new social workers to help schools address possible trauma and isolation during a year of disrupted learning, officials announced Tuesday.
That means all schools will soon have at least one full-time social worker or a school-based mental health clinic, according to the plan. These new hires will be placed at schools that don’t currently have a full-time social worker, said Nathaniel Styer, a spokesperson for the education department. Additionally, 90 school psychologists and 30 family support staff, who work with school psychologists, will be hired for 270 high-needs schools, officials said.
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A bill in the City Council is calling for changes to school safety agents. (Staten Island Advance)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. New York City Council legislation aimed at fundamentally changing the role of school safety agents is drawing a spectrum of wide-ranging opinions that on one end criticize the proposals as being short sighted, and on the other say fall short of true reform.
Interviews with schools safety agents, a union president, a school administrator, parents and advocates for school-safety reform reveal two sides embroiled in a debate that sees the current action taken in the city’s legislative body as being inconsistent with the needs of students.
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