A bill seeking to institutionalize school-based mental health program to ensure the well-being of all learners in public and private basic education schools across the country has been sponsored in the Senate plenary.
A bill seeking to institutionalize school-based mental health program to ensure the well-being of all learners in public and private basic education schools across the country has been sponsored in the Senate plenary.
Under the measure, Gatchalian said the Department of Education will implement complementary measures that enable other associated healthy behaviors among learners and eliminate the stigma on mental health counseling. The Center will serve as an instrument to deliver school-based mental health services, including the development of a localized multi-year roadmap on the school-based Mental Health Program, improvement of the mental health awareness and literacy of the teaching and non-teaching personnel, and establishment of linkages with the school community, including parents, parent-substitutes, LGUs, and other stakeholders.
Gatchalian said the compensation of the existing plantilla positions of Guidance Counselors I to III and Psychologists I to III will be adjusted to Salary Grades 16, 18 and 20, as their positions are converted to Mental Health Specialists I to III.
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