Rep. Wilhour Questions Mental Health Information Sent to Students but Not Their Parents

representative um can you define AG in development de developmentally appropriate so that would be up to the experts to determine the the teachers or the Educators to determine what is age and educationally appropriate due to different standards that exist um or the like so the local schools will be able to uh Define that and process that okay um next question is so you're sending things out to students and you're sending things out to parents what you're sending to students is that the same thing as what you're sending to parents no it's a little different so what we're giving to students is knowledge about uh resources within the community and specifically there's a section within Illinois law that allows for students to access some free mental health care that are ages 12 plus so that's why in this amendment we targeted just talking to students age 12 plus about that particular program whereas parents will be and they also will get um The Suicide Prevention help line as well as the text crisis number um and in addition to that that information both of those pieces of information will also go to the parents but the parents will also get links to DHS resources that have um Mental Health Care listed in the community thank you so just to be really really clear uh 12-year-old students are receiving things from the school that there's no obligation that the parents would have that same information correct okay thank you from