The House of Representatives on Tuesday authorized a invoice creating psychological well being and well-being places of work in colleges divisions nationwide on second studying.
House Bill 6574 or the Basic Education Mental Health and Well-Being Promotion Act mandates the hiring of psychological well being professionals and their deployment to public elementary and secondary college, vocational establishment and places of work within the central, regional, and colleges division governance ranges of the Department of Education (DepEd) inside 5 years from the effectivity of the measure.
Likewise, House Bill 6574 mandates the institution on the colleges division stage of a psychological well being and well-being workplace, to be headed by a certified Mental Health Professional with the place of Guidance Services Specialist V or Salary Grade 24.
In addition, the measure offers for the hiring of psychological well being professionals with wage grade not decrease than Salary Grade 16, together with steerage associates and psychometricians on the entry stage of Salary Grade 11.
“This is to promote the emotional, psychological and mental health well-being of learners and teachers so as to enhance their classroom and learning preparedness , including learners identified as children in conflict with the law, students at risk of dropping out, learner-victims of Violence Against Women and Children, and learners-victims of other related forms of child abuse and criminal acts,” the Committee Report on the measure learn.
Further, the invoice permits public colleges to rent graduates with related backgrounds in psychology or comparable fields, who could not but qualify as psychological well being professionals, to supply school-based psychological well being providers, however the provisions of the Guidance and Counseling Act of 2004, offered that they bear coaching on capability constructing as decided by the DepEd and supervised by certified psychological well being professionals inside the colleges division stage of their provision of psychological well being providers.
This is offered, additional, that they meet the related {qualifications} and are licensed as psychological well being professionals inside three years from their date of hiring.
House Bill 6574 additionally grants psychological well being professionals the rights and privileges offered for within the Magna Carta for Public Health Workers, Mental Health Act and different pertinent legal guidelines, in addition to creates a Joint Congressional Oversight Committee (JCOC) on the Basic Education Mental Health Program to watch and oversee the implementation of the provisions of this Act.
The oversight panel shall be composed of 5 members every from the Senate and from the House of Representatives, respectively, together with a member of the minority from every chamber, to be chaired collectively by the chairpersons of the Committees on Basic Education of each the Senate and the House of Representatives. — BM, GMA Integrated News
