(File Photo: Source for Photo: Students catch their bus near Ambridge Area Senior High School, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, in Ambridge, Pa. Pennsylvania school districts will soon be allowed to modify or end the mask mandate for K-12 students in January, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday, Nov. 8, 2021 saying it is “time to prepare for a transition back to a more normal setting.” (Andrew Rush /Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Berks County, PA) Democratic Pennsylvania State Representative Manuel Guzman Jr., who represents Berks County, is recently planning to introduce legislation for Pennsylvania to be part of the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists. This would help to specfically get services for mental health into schools to kids directly to give them care for their mental health for their future. According to the National Alliance of Mental Illness, across Pennsylvania, 98,000 kids between the ages of 12 and 17 are diagnosed with depression, but 57 percent of them are not able to receive care. The bill from Guzman Jr. will be proposed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the future.