Bill > HR3572

This bill, the Increasing Access to Mental Health in Schools Act, aims to increase the recruitment and retention of school-based mental health services providers in low-income school districts. The key provisions include: 1. Establishing a grant program to enable eligible partnerships between low-income local educational agencies and eligible graduate institutions to train, place, and retain school-based mental health services providers like school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists. 2. Allowing grant funds to be used for various purposes, such as covering administrative costs related to graduate student placements, hiring and paying the salaries of participating graduates for up to 3 years, and developing specialized coursework to prepare providers for working in low-income schools. 3. Creating a student loan forgiveness program for individuals who are employed for 5 or more consecutive school years as school-based mental health services providers in low-income local educational agencies. 4. Requiring the Secretary of Education to conduct a study to identify a formula for future designation of regions with a shortage of school-based mental health services providers.