Full Text of SB2014 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 25 as follows: | 6 | | (110 ILCS 58/25)
| 7 | | Sec. 25. Awareness. To raise mental health awareness on | 8 | | college campuses, each public college or university must do | 9 | | all of the following: | 10 | | (1) Develop and implement an annual student | 11 | | orientation session aimed at raising awareness about | 12 | | mental health conditions. | 13 | | (2) Assess courses and seminars available to students | 14 | | through their regular academic experiences and implement | 15 | | mental health awareness curricula if opportunities for | 16 | | integration exist. | 17 | | (3) Create and feature a page on its website or mobile | 18 | | application with information dedicated solely to the | 19 | | mental health resources available to students at the | 20 | | public college or university and in the surrounding | 21 | | community. | 22 | | (4) Distribute messages related to mental health | 23 | | resources that encourage help-seeking behavior through the |
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| 1 | | online learning platform of the public college or | 2 | | university during high stress periods of the academic | 3 | | year, including, but not limited to, midterm or final | 4 | | examinations. These stigma-reducing strategies must be | 5 | | based on documented best practices. | 6 | | (5) Three years after the effective date of this Act, | 7 | | implement an online screening tool to raise awareness and | 8 | | establish a mechanism to link or refer students of the | 9 | | public college or university to services. Screenings and | 10 | | resources must be available year round for students and, | 11 | | at a minimum, must (i) include validated screening tools | 12 | | for depression, an anxiety disorder, an eating disorder, | 13 | | substance use, alcohol-use disorder, post-traumatic stress | 14 | | disorder, and bipolar disorder, (ii) provide resources for | 15 | | immediate connection to services, if indicated, including | 16 | | emergency resources, (iii) provide general information | 17 | | about all mental health-related resources available to | 18 | | students of the public college or university, and (iv) | 19 | | function anonymously. | 20 | | (6) At least once per term and at times of high | 21 | | academic stress, including midterm or final examinations, | 22 | | provide students information regarding online screenings | 23 | | and resources.
| 24 | | (7) Provide contact information for the National | 25 | | Suicide Prevention Lifeline, for the Crisis Text Line, and | 26 | | for the mental health counseling center or program of the |
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| 1 | | public college or university on the back of each student | 2 | | identification card issued by the public college or | 3 | | university after the effective date of this amendatory Act | 4 | | of the 102nd General Assembly. If the public college or | 5 | | university does not issue student identification cards to | 6 | | its students, the public college or university must | 7 | | publish the contact information on its website. | 8 | | (Source: P.A. 101-251, eff. 7-1-20 .)
| 9 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 10 | | 2022.
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