Four teenagers in Oregon led a successful, first of its kind, effort in the USA to treat physical and mental health equally by lobbying for a mental health bill that was signed by Oregon’s governor in July. As a result, Oregon schools now allow students to miss classes for mental or behavioral health reasons without penalty.<\/p>\n
Read the report by National Public Radio, “Feeling Blue? Oregon Students Allowed To Take ‘Mental Health Days’<\/a>”<\/p>\n Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among Oregon residents aged 15 to 34, and the eighth-leading cause among all ages in the state, according to the Oregon Health Authority<\/a>.<\/p>\n The national suicide rate increased 33 percent from 1999 to 2017<\/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four teenagers in Oregon led a successful, first of its kind, effort in the USA to treat physical and mental health equally by lobbying for a mental health bill that was signed by Oregon’s governor in July. As a result, Oregon schools now allow students to miss classes for mental or behavioral health reasons without\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3,22],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-mental-health","tag-suicide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}