Talking on Mental Health

Jana Hughes represents District 24 in the Nebraska Legislature. Read her column from time to time in the Polk County News.
Jana Hughes represents District 24 in the Nebraska Legislature. Read her column from time to time in the Polk County News.

This week I testified before the Education Committee about LB565, a bill that I introduced to provide our schools with greater flexibility in providing more comprehensive behavioral and mental health training that focuses on suicide awareness and prevention.

Suicide awareness and prevention training is a very important part of the overall behavioral and mental health programs in our public schools.…