1. It will promote training to students, parents, teachers, and other school staff to identify and screen for signs of trauma, mental health disorders, and risk of suicide
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Our young people are telling us they need help. We only need to listen.
This country is facing an epidemic of black youth suicide. We must take action. @TheBlackCaucus and I have a plan...https://twitter.com/PostSports/status/1217468346309992448 …
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2. It includes legislative proposals to increase the amount of research relating to Black youth mental health and suicide through the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health, particularly research undertaken by minority researchers
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3. It increases funding for and directing the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to study mental health disparities in racial and ethnic minority groups
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and finally, 4. It will prohibit federal funds from being used for conversion therapy and prohibits SAMHSA grants to states that continue to allow such practices.https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/newsroom/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1619 …
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