Every day across the United States, students look forward to seeing one particular person when they walk into school. It’s not a classmate or a teacher, but rather, their school counselor.
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With the challenge of post-pandemic learning loss, along with the mental health crisis among Black youth, students, and families, mental health staff like counselors, school psychologists, and nurses need all the help they can get. Georgia Congresswoman Lucy McBath spoke about this at the ASCA conference, saying school counselors need tools that allow them to “continue to invest in our students’ psychological welfare, which really helps to support the entire family academically.”The analysis found that only 14% of districts met the recommended ratio. Districts that were at least 75% white were more likely to meet the recommended ratio.
“We know there’s a lack of school-based mental health providers in general,” Malone told Word In Black. “But, acutely, there’s a lack of school-based mental health providers of color, and so we are very much mixed-matched with the school-age population that we serve.” The full reality of some low-income and minority students, like living in a food desert or attending a school without air conditioning, has to be taken into consideration when youth are facing a mental health crisis.
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