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NJ advocates want yearly student screenings for drugs, depression

Not many young students will volunteer information, unprompted, about feelings of depression or their recent experimentation with drugs. That s why advocates, school employees and lawmakers are pushing for regular screenings of students at the middle- and high-school levels, as long as their parents consent. With a caseload of 400 students, counselor Cristina Puri at Lincoln Park Middle School typically wouldn t end up seeing a troubled student until someone else sensed an issue or the student was presenting outward signs in class. Her school is one of a couple in the Garden State testing out a model known as SBIRT Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment. Since November, 50 students were screened in a way that s meant to pick up on the need for mental health services or the severity of substance use.

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