Bill Text: NY K00145 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2-8, 2025, as School Social Worker Week in the State of New York

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2025-03-03 - adopted [K00145 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-K00145-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 145

BY: M. of A. Barrett

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        March 2-8, 2025, as School Social Worker Week in the
        State of New York

  WHEREAS, School social workers serve as vital members of a  school's
education  team, playing a central role in creating partnerships between
the home, school, and community to ensure student academic success; and

  WHEREAS, School social workers are especially skilled  in  providing
services  to  students  who  face  serious challenges to school success,
including disability, poverty, discrimination,  abuse,  neglect,  mental
illness,  homelessness, bullying, familial stressors, and other barriers
to learning; and

  WHEREAS, School social workers are more necessary now than any  time
in  recent  memory,  as  more  students  are  struggling with mental and
behavioral health disorders, with nearly one in five children  having  a
diagnosed mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder; and

  WHEREAS,  Those  who wish to access community mental health services
often find them unavailable, inaccessible, or inadequate; and

  WHEREAS,  School  mental  health  programs  are  critical  to  early
identification of and early intervention for mental health problems; and

  WHEREAS,   School  social  workers,  being  licensed  mental  health
professionals   in   our   schools,   provide   necessary    assessment,
interventions, counseling, family outreach, and community referrals; and

  WHEREAS,  School  social  workers  knowledge  of  school culture and
school climate are necessary for responsible school safety planning; and

  WHEREAS, School social workers contribute to  increasing  graduation
rates  in  New  York,  including  an  eighty-three  percent  high school
graduation rate in 2023, and a dropout rate of just five percent; and

  WHEREAS, Research  indicates  that  school  mental  health  programs
improve  educational  outcomes by decreasing absences, dropout rates and
discipline referrals, while improving academic achievement; and

  WHEREAS, The celebration of School Social Worker Week highlights the
vital role school social workers play in the lives of  students  in  New
York State; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED,  That  this Legislative Body pause in its deliberations to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim March 2-8, 2025, as School
Social Worker Week in the State of New York, and to honor and  recognize
the contributions of school social workers to the success of students in
schools  across  the  State, as well as encourage the people of New York
State to observe School Social Worker Week with  appropriate  activities
that  promote  awareness  of the vital role of school social workers, in
schools and in the community helping students prepare for their  futures
as productive, engaged citizens; and be it further


  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York.