REMARKS
Council Member Linda Lee introduces Intro 989
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Council Member Linda Lee introduces legislation to create student wellness club tool kits for NYC schools.
- The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene would create tool kits and informational materials for student wellness clubs.
- These clubs would provide peer-led spaces focused on student well-being.
- The Department of Education would make these tool kits available to all middle and high school students.
- Lee notes that peer-to-peer support services are a rapidly growing model of healthcare.
- The legislation aims to bring this support model to youth in need.
Linda Lee
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Good afternoon, Menin Speaker, majority leader in colleagues.
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It is my pleasure to introduce legislation today that continues the city council's ongoing work and an advocacy on mental health.
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And we'll hopefully help some of the students that are here today.
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Intro 989 would require the Department of Health And Mental Hygiene to create student wellness club tool kits and informational materials.
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These would help students create wellness clubs and peer led spaces focused on their well-being.
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Peer to peer support, as we know, services are one of the most and rapidly growing models of healthcare.
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By also requiring the Department of Education to make these tool kits available to all middle school and high school students, This legislation would help bring a version of this model to our youth in need.
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Thank you, and I hope you can all join me in this effort.
