Publisher's summary
We audited the following 20 school districts (Districts) to determine whether the Districts used resources to provide the mental health component of the New York Safe Schools Against Violence in Education Act (SAVE Act) training requirement to staff: Bellville-Henderson CSD, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake CSD, Canandaigua City SD, Coxsackie Athens CSD, Crown Point CSD, Dover UFSD, Eden CSD, Goshen CSD, Greenport UFSD, Harborfields CSD, Livonia CSD, Malone CSD, Port Washington UFSD, Rye Neck UFSD, Schalmont CSD, Seaford UFSD, Unadilla Valley CSD, Waverly CSD, Wellsville CSD and West Genesee CSD. The 20 Districts we examined did not provide mental health training to all staff for the 2020-21 school year by September 15, 2020, as required by New York State Education Department (SED) regulations.
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FIGURE 1
What Educators Should Knowa
a) United States Department of Health and Human Services
Based on SED guidance, as a best practice, at a minimum, staff should be trained
on the DHHS recommended mental health components of “what educators should
know.”
Not All District Trainings Included Recommended Mental Health Components
We audited 20 Districts in New York State and found 18 (90 percent) of the
Districts either did not offer training or offered training that lacked some or all the
recommended mental health components that educators should know (Figure 2).
FIGURE 2
Figure 2: Recommended Components Included
Recommended Components Included
in Trainings Byin Trainings By Districts
Districts
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Number of Districts
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0 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 11 12
Number of Recommended Training Components Included
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