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Resource: Senator Helming Supports Improving Scholastic Access to Mental Health Care
January 1, 2024
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ISSUE:
- Children's mental health
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Senator Helming participating in a Children's Mental Health Roundtable with local health systems, schools, counties and community partners.
S.6080 - Establishes a process by which schools can implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics and creates the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund to reimburse schools for associated costs.
S.4463 - Grants diagnosing privileges to current and future mental health counselors, family therapists, and psychoanalysts who complete necessary training. This will allow families greater access to much needed services and ensure that conditions are diagnosed, and treatment begins, as soon as possible.
S.8150 - Opens opportunities to recruit mental health counselors to New York State by reducing onerous regulations on licensed counselors from other states who want to practice in New York.
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![From left: Senator Pam Helming, Newark Middle School seventh-grader Giancarlo Colon, Giancarlo’s mother Darcy Franco, and Newark Village Mayor Jonathan Taylor.](/sites/default/files/styles/760x377/public/press-release/main-image/liberty_medal_0.jpg?itok=VbeqkBXT)
![Front row: Jennifer Schenck of Union Springs High School and Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES, Senator Pam Helming, Emma Smithers of Waterloo High School, Briana McCoy of South Seneca High School. Back row: Kenneth DeLand, Maverick Coryell, Corrine Brown, Spencer Bonawitz, and Aidan Cort, all of Midlakes High School, Sean Bronson of Waterloo High School, and Giancarlo Colon from Newark Middle School.](/sites/default/files/styles/760x377/public/press-release/main-image/youth_leadership_helming.jpg?itok=PXO3USqQ)