Assisting School Mental Health Professionals Through Work Study Act of 2021
This bill adds assisting school-based mental health professionals to the list of community services in which undergraduate, graduate, and professional students may participate under the Federal Work-Study Program.
Specifically, the bill revises the definition of community services to include activities in which the student assists a mental health professional with appropriate tasks (e.g., administrative assistance) so long as the professional is (1) a school-based mental health services provider, or (2) an overseer of a school-based mental health services provider.
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include student assistance 
to certain mental health professionals as community services under the 
                      Federal work-study program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Assisting School Mental Health 
Professionals Through Work Study Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY SERVICES.

    Section 441(c) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087-
51(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (4)(C), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(5) activities in which a student assists a mental health 
        professional with appropriate tasks (which may include 
        administrative assistance, but which shall not include the 
        direct provision of mental health services by the student), 
        provided that the mental health professional--
                    ``(A) is a school-based mental health services 
                provider (as such term is defined in section 4102(6) of 
                the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) of 
                any preschool, Head Start program, early childhood 
                education program, or elementary or secondary school 
                that serves community residents; or
                    ``(B) is an overseer of a school-based mental 
                health services provider described in subparagraph 
                (A).''.
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Assisting School Mental Health Professionals Through Work Study Act of 2021
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include student assistance to certain mental health professionals as community services under the Federal work-study program.
Assisting School Mental Health Professionals Through Work Study Act of 2021
Rep. Newman, Marie