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House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted:	October 18, 2023 04:18 PM
From:	Representative Napoleon J. Nelson
To:	All House members
Subject:	A Holistic Approach to Trauma Support

It is no secret that trauma is detrimental to our children’s well-being. We can all agree that our schools are critical locations where our young people develop essential functional and social skills. Schools have invested time and resources to become trauma-informed learning institutions, however, we have not updated our processes for how schools become aware of, maintain, utilize, and protect this very important and personal information about student trauma.

It is for these reasons that I plan to introduce a legislative bill package aimed at providing a series of measures designed to support our children in the school setting. This series of legislation would, among other things:

Establish trauma records as an eligible trauma-informed approach for school districts to receive funding under the School Safety and Security Grant Program;

Direct the Department of Human Services to create pathways of communication between county agencies and school districts to share information relating to traumatic events;

Require school entities to develop a comprehensive student mental health support plan.

Pennsylvania has previously worked to mitigate trauma that our children face, but now is the moment to fully achieve this goal.

Please consider co-sponsoring this legislation and let us affirm our resolve to support every child in the state.

Document #1

Introduced as HB2110

Description:	Document #1 Description: This bill would amend the Public School Code to permit school districts to establish trauma records in order to receive School Safety and Security Grant Funding.

Document #2

Introduced as HB2101

Description:	Document #2 Description: This bill would amend Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes to require the Department of Human Services to create information pathways.

Document #3

Introduced as HB2109

Description:	Document #3 Description: This bill would amend the Public School Code to require school entities to adopt a comprehensive student mental health support plan.