Provides for additional training, more comprehensive planning, and emphasis on partnerships between schools and communities, in order to increases the capacity for school districts to recognize and respond to troubled youth. (See also HB 1336).   Official Text and Analysis.

Adds language regarding teachers' ability to uniquely identify signs of emotional and behavioral distress in students. Removes the term troubled youth and replaces it with youth in need. Adds school psychologists to the school personnel that must complete a training program on youth suicide screening and referral as a condition of certification. Adds a requirement for the temporary taskforce to explore the potential use of online youth emotional health and crisis response systems that have been developed for use in other countries.