Mental health days are the new sick days for students and schools are OK with it

Mental health days are the new sick days for students and schools are OK with it

Posted on July 30, 2022

“What is helpful about the way in which mental health days are being rolled out in some states is that there’s a certain number of days that is allocated to take off,” Dr. Christine M. Crawford, NAMI associate medical director, told TODAY Parents. “If schools see a pattern in which the student exceeds the allotted number of mental health days that really signals to the school that perhaps a student requires more mental health support.”