All school districts that serve 7th through 12th graders will now have to adopt suicide prevention policies, under a bill signed into law by Governor
Brown. Nevada Joint Union High School District Superintendent, Louise Johnson, believes she’s among districts that have likely already met the new requirement, through a number of initiatives. That includes creating a new position that’s called Intervention Specialist, which links students to counselling. She also says she’s already seeing a reduction of anxiety from the earlier school start time that went into effect this fall…

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Johnson also believes the large amount of time students devote to social media also had some harmful impacts..

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Johnson says many teens also have over-scheduled lifestyles. Meanwhile, she says school districts will get updated information on students’ mental states, after results of the next California Healthy Kids survey are released.