Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1560 to provide cost-free mental health screening tools to public schools in Illinois ...

Illinois the first state in the nation to require public schools to offer mental health screenings in 3rd through 12th grades ...

The bill, SB1560, requires all school districts to provide screening in grades 3 through 12 at least once a year.

Pritzker said it’s important to overcome the stigma around getting help for mental health issues and to treat mental health ...

Illinois is set to become the first American state to mandate annual mental health screenings for students. Governor JB ...

Gov. JB Pritzker joined state officials on July 31 to sign legislation that will provide Illinois public schools with ...

A new Illinois law is scheduled to implement annual mental health screenings in public schools beginning during the 2027-28 ...

A bill is now in effect to ensure universal mental health screenings are available at all Illinois public schools, making it ...

Illinois State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders said that between 2018 and 2022, mental health and substance use ...

Pritzker said Illinois is the first in the country to provide universal mental health screenings for children in public schools.

Students in Illinois will soon have to get mental health screenings alongside annual vision and hearing exams.

This story contains mentions of suicide. With a backdrop of a hand-painted, student-made mural and a grinning slate of state ...