APEX Now Program; enact

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 3 of Article 16 of Chapter 2 of Title 20 of the O.C.G.A., relating to health of students, so as to enact the "APEX Now Program"; to provide support for mental health services to students and school personnel experiencing incidents of violence, threats of violence, natural disasters, and other crisis situations; to provide for such program to be established within the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities; to provide for the deve…

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• Student / education borrowerdirectModerate impactHigh certainty

  Provides support for mental health services to students experiencing incidents of violence, threats of violence, natural disasters, and other crisis situations.

  “to provide support for mental health services to students and school personnel experiencing incidents of violence, threats of violence, natural disasters, and other crisis situations”· O.C.G.A. 20-2-1600 et seq.

• Mental health service userdirectModerate impactHigh certainty

  Establishes the 'APEX Now Program' within the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities to provide support for mental health services during crisis situations.

  “to enact the "APEX Now Program"; to provide support for mental health services to students and school personnel experiencing incidents of violence, threats of violence, natural disasters, and other crisis situations; to provide for such program to be established within the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities”· O.C.G.A. 20-2-1600 et seq.