School boards; mental health awareness training for full-time school bus drivers.

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School boards; mental health awareness training; full-time school bus drivers. Permits any school board to require each school bus driver employed on a full-time basis in the local school division to complete mental health awareness training at least once. The bill requires the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to consider condensing and abbreviating the existing mental health first aid training program into a two-hour module that any school board may utilize in order to…

Source: OpenStates · fetched March 5, 2026

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via Voices for Virginia's Children: School boards; mental health awareness training; anonymous student reporting system.

Student / education borrower

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Parent / guardiandirectModerate impactMedium certainty
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School boards; mental health awareness training; anonymous student reporting system.
Student / education borrowerdirectModerate impactMedium certainty
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School boards; mental health awareness training; anonymous student reporting system.

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School boards; mental health awareness training; anonymous student reporting system.

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