Afternoon Briefing: Illinois schools to offer mental health screenings
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Afternoon Briefing: Illinois schools to offer mental health screenings
Illinois and 15 other states are fighting back in a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration for “intimidating providers’ into denying such care. The Friendly Confines will host the Midsummer Classic for the first time since 1990. The agency responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda says it has made tentative job offers to more than 1,000 people. The bill, SB 1560, requires all Illinois public schools to offer free, optional mental health screening.
Another Chicago hospital has ended gender-affirming pediatric surgery amid threats to its federal funding. But Illinois and 15 other states are fighting back in a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration for “intimidating providers” into denying such care.
UI Health became the latest hospital today to suspend gender-affirming surgical procedures for adolescents effective immediately, according to an announcement posted on the hospital’s website.
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The bill, SB 1560, requires all Illinois public schools to offer third through 12th grade students a free, optional mental health screening. The bill passed the Illinois House of Representatives on May 21, and the Senate a month earlier. Read more here.
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