School-based early mental health intervention and prevention services.

Existing law, subject to funding by the Legislature, establishes the School-Based Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention Services Matching Grant Program, under which the Director of Health Care Services, in consultation with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, is authorized to award matching grants to local educational agencies to pay the state share of the costs of providing programs that provide school-based early mental health intervention and prevention services to eligible pupils at schoolsites, as specified. This bill would require the Director of Health Care Services to, on or before June 30, 2027, report to the Legislature on the effectiveness of the grant program and legislative recommendations for improving the effectiveness of the grant program.