North Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Carolina House Bill H832 Compare Versions

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1	1		GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
2	2		SESSION 2025
3		-	H 1
4		-	HOUSE BILL 832
	3	+	H D
	4	+	HOUSE BILL DRH40449-ML-117
	5	+
5	6
6	7
7	8		Short Title: Revise School Safety Grant Program. (Public)
8		-	Sponsors: Representatives Blackwell, Campbell, Cunningham, and Wheatley (Primary
9		-	Sponsors).
10		-	For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
11		-	Referred to: Education - K-12, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
12		-	April 10, 2025
13		-	H832 -v-1
	9	+	Sponsors: Representative Blackwell.
	10	+	Referred to:
	11	+
	12	+	DRH40449 -ML-117
14	13		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
15	14		AN ACT TO REVISE THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH SCHOOL SAFETY GRANTS 2
16	15		PROGRAM FUNDS MAY BE USED . 3
17	16		The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
18	17		SECTION 1. Section 7.36(f) of S.L. 2023-134, as amended by Section 3J.17 of S.L. 5
19	18		2024-57, reads as rewritten: 6
20	19		"SECTION 7.36.(f) Grants for Training to Increase School Safety. – Of the funds 7
21	20		appropriated by this act for the grants provided in this section, the Executive Director of the 8
22	21		Center for Safer Schools, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services, 9
23	22		shall award grants to public school units to contract with community partners to address school 10
24	23		safety by providing training to help students develop healthy responses to trauma and stress. The 11
25	24		training shall be targeted and evidence-based and shall include any of the following services: 12
26	25		(1) Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) training for school health 13
27	26		support personnel, local first responders, and teachers on the topics of suicide 14
28	27		prevention and reducing access by students to lethal means. 15
29	28		(2) Training for school health support personnel on comprehensive and 16
30	29		evidence-based clinical treatments for students and their parents or guardians, 17
31	30		including any of the following: 18
32	31		a. Parent-child interaction therapy. 19
33	32		b. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy. 20
34	33		c. Behavioral therapy. 21
35	34		d. Dialectical behavior therapy. 22
36	35		e. Child-parent psychotherapy. 23
37	36		(3) Training for students and school employees on community resilience models 24
38	37		to models, violence prevention, and developing personal and interpersonal 25
39	38		skills to (i) enhance individual level protective factors, (ii) mitigate or reduce 26
40	39		risk taking or harmful behavior, and (iii) improve understanding and responses 27
41	40		to trauma and significant stress. 28
42	41		(4) Training for school health support personnel on Modular Approach to 29
43	42		Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct 30
44	43		problems (MATCH-ADTC), including any of the following components: 31
45	44		a. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy. 32
46	45		b. Parent and student coping skills. 33
47		-	c. Problem solving. 34 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
48		-	Page 2 House Bill 832-First Edition
49		-	d. Safety planning. 1
50		-	(5) Any other training, including the training on the facilitation of peer-to-peer 2
51		-	mentoring, training or education programming that is likely to increase school 3
52		-	safety. The training or education programming authorized in this subdivision 4
53		-	includes training on the facilitation of peer-to-peer mentoring, education on 5
54		-	personal and interpersonal skills or character education, and education or 6
55		-	training addressing violence prevention and suicide prevention. Of the funds 7
56		-	appropriated by this act for the grants provided in this section, the Executive 8
57		-	Director shall use no more than three hundred fifty thousand dollars 9
58		-	($350,000) in the 2024-2025 fiscal year for the services identified in this 10
59		-	subdivision." 11
60		-	SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law. 12
	46	+	c. Problem solving. 34
	47	+	d. Safety planning. 35
	48	+	H.B. 832
	49	+	Apr 8, 2025
	50	+	HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
	51	+	Page 2 DRH40449-ML-117
	52	+	(5) Any other training, including the training on the facilitation of peer-to-peer 1
	53	+	mentoring, training or education programming that is likely to increase school 2
	54	+	safety. The training or education programming authorized in this subdivision 3
	55	+	includes training on the facilitation of peer-to-peer mentoring, education on 4
	56	+	personal and interpersonal skills or character education, and education or 5
	57	+	training addressing violence prevention and suicide prevention. Of the funds 6
	58	+	appropriated by this act for the grants provided in this section, the Executive 7
	59	+	Director shall use no more than three hundred fifty thousand dollars 8
	60	+	($350,000) in the 2024-2025 fiscal year for the services identified in this 9
	61	+	subdivision." 10
	62	+	SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law. 11