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State Profile: California In fall 2012, California’s S3 high schools have initiated “student fishbowls,” in which students discuss school climate efforts. A “fishbowl” is a youth development strategy in which students exercise meaningful participation. Each fishbowl ends with student-staff collaborative action planning that includes ongoing student involvement.

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HHS/Office of Adolescent Health Updates State-by-State Adolescent Mental Health Facts. The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health has recently updated its state summaries that focus on adolescent mental health. Each state page reports on positive social skills, depressive symptoms, depressive episodes and suicidal thoughts, attempts, and injuries.  Learn More

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February 13, 2013

KS Board OKs Limits on Seclusion and Restraint

New regulations regarding the use in Kansas schools of "restraint and seclusion" of students with severe behavioral disorders were adopted by the state board of education on Wednesday. Board members voted 9-1 to approve the regulations. The board then directed staff to draft regulations that include an appeals process for parents who disagree with the way local school boards are implementing the rules. Read Story