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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="7-14A-04" title_number="7" title_name="Public Schools" subtitle_number="14A" subtitle_name="Operation of Public Schools During a Prolonged State of Emergency -- Virtual Education Plans">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The school personnel at each school shall develop a school behavioral health plan to assist students who are struggling when the school is operating under a virtual education plan that includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Proper assignments for all behavioral and mental health staff;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Methods for all students to access behavioral and mental health supports, including through telehealth if necessary;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Procedures for referral of students who are struggling to access proper behavioral and mental health supports; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Increased attention and care for students struggling with the emotional, behavioral, or psychological stressors of virtual education.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In establishing a behavioral health plan under this subsection, a school may use a multitiered system of supports model.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>While a school is operating under a virtual education plan, the principal shall require a staff member to conduct regular wellness check–ins with students at least once per week.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The principal may assign a community school coordinator, staff member, or team of staff to conduct the wellness check–ins required under this subsection.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>If a regular wellness check–in reveals that a student is struggling with the educational, emotional, behavioral, or psychological stressors of virtual education, the principal shall require a staff member, in accordance with subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Check in with the student multiple times per week; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Develop an individual behavioral health plan consistent with the school behavioral health plan established under subsection (a) of this section.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The principal shall arrange for a school psychologist, pupil personnel worker, school social worker, school counselor, or behavioral health specialist to perform the tasks required under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
