For students in Illinois, mental health screenings will soon be required alongside annual vision and hearing exams. Illinois ...

Illinois State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders said that between 2018 and 2022, mental health and substance use ...

Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1560 to provide cost-free mental health screening tools to public schools in Illinois ...

Illinois the first state in the nation to require public schools to offer mental health screenings in 3rd through 12th grades ...

The bill, SB1560, requires all school districts to provide screening in grades 3 through 12 at least once a year.

As part of the program, mental health screenings in Illinois schools will become a regular thing. The state’s Board of ...

Starting in 2026, Illinois students in grades 3 through 12 will undergo annual mental health screenings, addressing rising ...

An expert in trauma and suicide has told a coronial inquest into the death of a veteran officer that better mental health ...

Gov. JB Pritzker at Chute Middle School in Evanston on July 31, 2025, signs into law a mandate that will require Illinois ...

Illinois becomes the first state to mandate annual mental health screenings for public school students from third to twelfth ...

This story contains mentions of suicide. With a backdrop of a hand-painted, student-made mural and a grinning slate of state ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1560 Thursday, which would require the State Board of Education and a children’s ...