Federal Legislation to Address the Critical Shortage of School Psychologists
In This Section
- Getting Ready the NASP 2023 Convention
- All Aboard the Omnibus: Increases in Federal Education Investments in FY 2023
- NSPW Advocacy Action Day 2022
- The Tradition of Being Grateful
- Vote Like Education Depends on It
- Mental Health Grant Applications Are Open
- Updates to the NASP Federal Policy and Legislative Platform
- Wrapping Up Our Summer of Advocacy
- Compromise: The Pathway to Progress
- The Future of the Profession: Graduate Student Advocates
- We Need to Share Our Advocacy Success Stories
- PSLF Waiver Success Story: Ending the Cycle of Debt
- In It For the Long Haul
- Advocacy During the NASP 2022 Annual Convention
- Finding Inspiration and Energy at NASP 2022
- Demystifying State Level Advocacy
- Beyond the Classroom and Into the Community
- Building Back Better: This Year's Progress and Next Year's Outlook
- Taking Time for Gratitude
- Advancing Equity Through Social Justice Action
- Public Service Loan Forgivness Overhaul
- Regulation and Relationships: Advocacy in Action
- Advocacy: How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Back to School and Advocacy
- At the Heart of Advocacy
- New Year, New Ideas: Advocating for the Four Cs
- 2021 Advocacy Academy Wrap-Up
- Hill Day Prep: Getting to Know the Shortages Bills
- How Advocacy for Mental Health in Schools Impacted One Colorado School District
- Planning Your Summer of Advocacy
- All in on Education: A Closer Look at President Biden's FY2022 Budget
- Department of Education COVID-19 Relief Use of Funds Guidance: What Do School Psychologists Need to Know?
- The American Rescue Plan Act – What Does this Mean for the Funding of School Mental Health Services?
- School Psychologists Finally Included in Federal Data Set
- Registration is Open for the Virtual Advocacy Academy
- Strategic Planning: Are We on the Right Track?
- Federal Advocacy Update: Meeting With White House Officials, Department of Ed, and Members of Congress
- American Rescue Plan Act – What Do School Psychologists Need to Know?
- Advocacy in Action During the 2021 Virtual Convention
- Getting Acquainted With the State Legislative Process
- Highlights from Dr. Cardona's Confirmation Hearing to be Secretary of Education
- The New Normal
- Call of Duty
- Education and Mental Health in President-Elect Biden's American Rescue Plan
- NASP Releases Federal Policy Platform for the 117th Congress and Incoming Biden Administration
- Ready and Empowered to Advocate
- 2020 Presidential Election Results: A Promising Future for School Psychology
- 2020 NSPW Advocacy Action Day!
- NASP Outlines Vision for Effective Schools
- UASP's Successes through Visibility, Advocacy, and Partnership
- The Notorious RBG, a Pandemic, and an Election.
- 2020 Back to School Advocacy Resources
- How Field Supervisors Can Encourage Advocacy Efforts Among Interns
- 2019 State Trends in Enacted Legislation
- Suicide Prevention within COVID 19 Pandemic
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness Q+A
- Bolt of Lightning: Elevator Moments
- CNN Town Hall Recap
- COVID-19 School Psychologist Practice Impact Survey
- National and State School Psychology Association Membership Amidst a Global Pandemic
- Secretary DeVos issues Waiver Requests to Congress
- Senate Passes COVID-19 Education Stimulus Fund
- Developing Relationships: Friend, Foe, or It’s Complicated
- Vision 2020 - Advocacy in Action at Convention
- The Power of Connection and Recharge
- Applications Open for FY 2019 STOP School Violence Grants
- The Importance of Being Counted!
- NASP Priorities Funded in FY 2020 Spending Bills
- Nevada Finds its Advocacy Focus for SPAW 2019
- What is Your Focus? Celebrating School Psychology Awareness Week
- 2019 SPAW Advocacy Action Day
- US Department of Education Hosts First Ever School Psychology Roundtable
- U.S. Department of Education School Ambassador Fellowship
- "Nothing is More Powerful than an Idea Whose Time has Come"
- Joint Statement from Members of the Disability Community and Allies on Gun Violence Prevention Policy and Mental Health Disabilities
- School Safety and Gun Violence Prevention Messaging Should Not Escalate Anxiety
- Namaste: Incorporating Advocacy into your "Practice" - Back to School 2019
- Building Capacity for Safe and Successful Schools: 2019 Public Policy Institute Recap
- Policy Playbook and Website Features
- National Gun Violence Awareness Day
- Advocacy in a Time of Division
- 2019 NASP/GW Public Policy Institute Featured Speakers
- Real-Time Advocacy: Part 2
- House spending proposal addresses several NASP priorities
- Affecting Change Through Social Media: Tips to Stay Engaged and Informed After Convention is Over
- Advocacy in Action at Convention 2019
- School-Based Mental Health Advocacy Day in Missouri!
- The Great Divide - Reaching Across the Aisle
- What to Expect in the 116th Congress
- Advocacy Amplification Every Day
- NASP Releases Federal Policy Platform for 116th Congress
- The Impact of 2018 Midterm Elections on the Future of Education
- Achieving Funding Equity through State Funding Formulas
- School Psychology Awareness Week Comes to New Jersey!
- SPAW Virtual Hill Day, By the Numbers
- What is the Cost of Providing Students with Adequate Psychological Support
- Brunch with a Legislator: Creative Engagement with Policymakers
- School Psychologists are Critical to School Safety and Preventing Violence
- Advocacy in Action at the 2018 Convention
- NASP Priorities in ESSA State Plans
- Public Service Loan Forgivness and School Psychologists
- Federal Policy Updates March 2017
- ESSA and Other Federal Policy Updates
- Small Steps Change Lives
- NASP Twitter Chat: Social Justice
- School Psychologists: Advancing Policy and Practice to Support ALL Students
- I Am a Rural School Psychologist
- Using Social Media to Advance Advocacy Efforts
- School Psychology Graduate Students in Missouri are Outstanding Advocates
- NASP Opposes Anti Trans Legislation
- The Importance of State and Local Advocacy
- The Every Student Succeeds Act and School Psychologists
- NASP Calls for End of Ban on Gun Research
- House Passes The Every Student Succeeds Act
- NASP Urges Congress to Pass the Every Student Succeeds Act
- ESEA Heads to Vote
- ESEA Conference to Begin Today
- Committing to Advocacy
- Mental Health ESEA Conference Letter
- Public Opinion, Research, and ESEA
- Successful 2015 GW/NASP Public Policy Institute
- ESEA Heads to Conference
- Senate Passes ESEA Reauthorization Legislation
- One Step Closer to ESEA Reauthorization
- ESEA Matters to Your Practice
- The President's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Request
- Busy Start to 2015
- The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- Advocacy in Schools: A Graduate Student Example
- School Psychologists as Change Agents: Advocating for Our Own Profession
- Specialized Instructional Support Personnel Week 2016
- Anxious About Advocating?
- What's So Great About PPI? (Everything!)
- 2016 PPI Participants, Prepare to be Inspired
- Successful #NASPadvocates Twitter Campaign at the 2016 GW/NASP Public Policy Institute
- Advocacy in Action around ESSA Implementation in Kentucky
- Urge Congress to Preserve Funding for Title IV Part A of ESSA to Ensure Comprehensive School Mental Health Services
- Advocacy: Relationships that Create Change
- State Planning at ESSA Town Hall Meeting in Missouri
- 2016 Presidential Candidates’ Statements Regarding NASP Policy Priorities
- Presidental Election Resources
- On the Couch with Dr. Barry
- SPAW Thunderclap
- Getting to Know the GPR Committee
- The "SECRET" of Advocacy
- What the Trump Administration Could Mean for Public Education
- I Am Advocacy
- Secretary DeVos Releases New ESSA Guidance
- Why I Advocate
- The Advocacy Seeds We Plant
- Tips for Open and Respectful Dialogues in the Classroom
- Dynamic Speakers to Present at the 2017 Public Policy Institute
- Transformation Implementation
- 2017 GW/NASP Public Policy Review
- Update on State ESSA Plans
- "Handing Out" School Psychology
- Graduate Students Serving as a Bridge in the Research-to-Practice Gap
- The Potential Impact of Tax Reform on School Psychology Graduate Students
- 2017 Policy Wrap Up
- Leadership and Advocacy Tools and Resources
- Real-time Advocacy Part 1
- Why Should School Psychologists Care About Medicaid?
- Arming School Psychologists
- NASP Influence on Efforts to Reduce Violence and Improve School Safety
- NASP Hosts Congressional Briefing on School Safety
- How #IAdvocate As a Graduate Student
- 2018 GW/NASP Public Policy Institute: Early Bird Registration Ends 5/28
- Federal Legislation to Address the Critical Shortage of School Psychologists
- Statement of NASP President John Kelly Federal School Safety Commission Public Listening Session
- NASP Leader Addresses the Effect of Media Coverage on School Violence at Federal Safety Commission Meeting
- Advocacy, Leadership and Legislation...”Are we there yet?”
- PPI Virtual Hill Day 2018
- Advocating for School Mental Health Services within State Policy
- Advocacy in Action, With Feather Boas!
- 5 Quick Back-to-School Advocacy Tips
- Congress Poised to Provide Increased investments in Education, Mental Health, and School Safety
- NASP's Inaugural SPAW Virtual Hill Day
- How to be S.M.A.R.T. like us
This week, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, spoke on the floor of the United States Senate about the importance of school psychologists, school counselors, and school social workers in improving student mental health and creating safe schools. Importantly, Senator Nelson has introduced the Increasing Access to Mental Health in Schools Act. This legislation, in recognition of the critcal shortage that currently exists, would provide grants to help create school/university partnerships to help train, recruit, and retain school based mental health service providers in high needs districts who are experiencing critical shortages. Further, it directs the US Department of Education to 1) establish a loan forgiveness program for school based mental health service providers in low income agencies, and 2) to conduct a comprehensive study on the shortages of school psychologists, school counselors, and school social workers.
Please ACT NOW and write your members of Congress urging them to support this critical legislation and help remedy the critical shortages of school psychologists.