Last week, Governor J. B. Pritzker made Illinois the first state to require mental-health screenings for all public school students. The governor boasted that such assessments, which screen every ...

Critics of a new law that will make Illinois the first state in the country to conduct annual mental health screenings of school children say the plan will do more harm than good.

Students in Illinois will soon have to get mental health screenings alongside annual vision and hearing exams.

Approximately 70% of incarcerated youth in the United States have a mental disorder. The challenges in this population are ...

Illinois will require all school districts in the state to offer mental health screenings at least once a year to students in ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a bill which requires Illinois’ public school districts to provide universal mental health ...

Gov. JB Pritzker joined state officials on July 31 to sign legislation that will provide Illinois public schools with cost-free mental health screening tools for students across the state, according ...

Illinois students are used to taking physicals and vision tests for school, but now they can add one more exam to the list.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1560 Thursday, which would require the State Board of Education and a children’s ...