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Dear Site and Department leaders- 

This bulletin is to share out the 2024-25 Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Mental Health Crisis Response Procedures. Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s Mental Health Crisis Response (MHCR) Team is a vital component of the school and district safety protocols. In the event of a crisis, the Mental Health Crisis Response team consists of primarily the site-based support staff (school counselor, psychologist, social worker, etc). If it is assessed that additional Crisis Response team members are needed, crisis response staff will be dispatched. 

Happy new school year!

While we are all focused on the months ahead, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past few months. Our partners at Sacramento County Behavioral Health recently shared with us that this was a record summer for youth suicide attempts in our county; including 13 attempts requiring hospitalization in one day alone.

The United States Surgeon General has been calling youth mental health a national epidemic for two years, and locally this rings true.