Sec. 38.251.  RUBRIC TO IDENTIFY RESOURCES.  (a)  The agency shall develop a rubric for use by regional education service centers in identifying resources related to student mental health that are available to schools in their respective regions.  The agency shall develop the rubric in conjunction with:
(1)  the Health and Human Services Commission;
(2)  the Department of Family and Protective Services;
(3)  the Texas Juvenile Justice Department;
(4)  the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board;
(5)  the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium;
(6)  the Texas Workforce Commission; and
(7)  any other state agency the agency considers appropriate.
(b)  The rubric developed by the agency must provide for the identification of resources relating to:
(1)  training and technical assistance on practices that support the mental health of students;
(2)  school-based programs that provide prevention or intervention services to students;
(3)  community-based programs that provide school-based or school-connected prevention or intervention services to students;
(4)  Communities In Schools programs described by Subchapter E, Chapter 33;
(5)  school-based mental health providers; and
(6)  public and private funding sources available to address the mental health of students.
(c)  Not later than December 1 of each odd-numbered year, the agency shall revise the rubric as necessary to reflect changes in resources that may be available to schools and provide the rubric to each regional education service center.
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 464 (S.B. 11), Sec. 19, eff. June 6, 2019.