Therapist Jo-Leann Trine of Thriveworks in Aurora joined ABC7 live to share more about the mandated mental health days and their impacts.
"We're bringing mental health to the limelight, we're no longer stigmatizing and keeping it to adults," Trine said."Because kids are really feeling the impact of the pandemic and life changes like everyone else."Trine shared some ways parents can check in on their children's mental health, like asking them if anything made them laugh today.
"If you notice your kids having a change in their baseline, you're noticing something a little bit different, be curious," Trine said."And honestly, most importantly, if you can do anything, it's to validate somebody's feelings." Trine said the law requires a school counselor to check in with a student after their second consecutive mental health day.
I tried that in high school! Didn’t get away with it in school oor at home!
We are teaching them to be soft crying babies. Between the weed that’s legal and teaching to be a whatever sex they feel like being good luck making them stand up for our American life.
Kids nowadays are soft as a bag full of kittens.
This is definitely much needed. Wish it was more, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Amazing! So many will benefit from this. Let’s continue positive changes to move the needle of normalcy surrounding mental health.
How about just make masks optional? vander_god
5 extra days to smoke weed and play xbox
Glad I’ll be retired by the time these kids join the workforce. What a joke.
This is crazy. What are we teaching our kids.
Fuck, are we raising such weakness.
Well 30+ years ago, my Mom allowed my sister & I to do this every so often. Not understanding why IL needed a law to do it. It was up to Mom, not anyone else.