Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday announced a focused all-agency effort and anti-stigma campaign, ‘Reach Out PA: Your Mental Health Matters,’ aimed at expanding resources and the state’s comprehensive support of mental health and related health care priorities in Pennsylvania. The governor announced several initiatives the administration will undertake to bolster the effort. For education, the initiatives include creating pathways to increase the number of social workers trained to work in schools, evaluating how to ensure every school district can provide a full-time counselor, social worker and nurse, and expanding efforts to address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and implement more trauma-informed approaches in education.

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Source: GantNews, January 3, 2020.