42 U.S.C. § 290bb–33 — Student suicide awareness and prevention training

(a) In general When awarding funds under section 290bb–32, the Secretary must give priority to a State, local, or Tribal educational agency (applying directly or through a state or Indian Tribe) seeking funding for secondary-school activities, if that agency has adopted — or its application includes a plan to adopt — a student suicide awareness and prevention training policy, which may use youth suicide strategies from section 290bb–36. The applicant must plan to: (1) set up and run a school-based training policy following subsection (c); (2) consult stakeholders — including principals, teachers, parents, local Tribal officials, and other relevant experts — and, as appropriate, use resources from the Suicide Prevention Technical Assistance Center (section 290bb–34) while developing the policy; and (3) collect and report information as required by subsection (d). (b) Consideration In giving this priority, the Secretary must, as appropriate, weigh how common suicide is in that jurisdiction and the cost of setting up and running the training policy. (c) School-based student suicide awareness and prevention training policy A policy adopted under subsection (a)(1) must: (1) be evidence-based; (2) be culturally and linguistically appropriate; (3) give students in grades 6 through 12 evidence-based training — coordinated with school-based mental health resources, as applicable — on (A) suicide prevention education and awareness, including risk factors, (B) how students can seek help, and (C) resources for suicide awareness and prevention; and (4) provide periodic retraining. (d) Collection of information and reporting Each educational agency that gets priority to implement a new training policy under subsection (a)(1) must report to the Secretary, in a way that protects personal privacy consistent with applicable federal and state privacy laws: (1) the number of trainings held, including student trainings and the delivery method used; (2) the number of students trained, broken down by age and grade level; and (3) the number of help-seeking reports students made after the policy took effect. (e) Evidence-based program availability The Secretary must coordinate with the Secretaries of Education and the Interior to: (1) make the policies adopted under this section, and the training available under them, publicly available, consistent with section 290dd–2a; and (2) give technical assistance and share best practices on student suicide awareness and prevention training policies — including through the Suicide Prevention Technical Assistance Center, as applicable — with educational agencies. (f) Implementation By September 30, 2024, the Secretary must report to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on how many section 290bb–32 grant recipients have implemented training policies under subsection (a)(1), and summarize the information received under subsection (d). (g) Definitions (1) "Evidence-based" has the meaning given in 20 U.S.C. § 7801. (2) "Local educational agency" has the meaning given in 20 U.S.C. § 7801. (3) "State educational agency" has the meaning given in 20 U.S.C. § 7801. (4) "Tribal educational agency" has the meaning given to "tribal educational agency" in 20 U.S.C. § 7452.