House Committee on Youth Health and Safety, Select - 87th R.S. (2021)

Committee Members
J.M. Lozano, Chair Ann Johnson, Vice Chair Steve Allison David Cook Harold V. Dutton, Jr. James Frank	Stephanie Klick Jeff Leach Eddie Morales Victoria Neave Toni Rose
Charges
• Provide a cross-jurisdictional forum for the examination and consideration of issues that broadly affect the health, safety, and rights of Texas youth.
• Improve the ability of federal, state, and local governmental entities to address the needs of Texas youth through, among other things, expanded coordination between all programs and systems that serve youth and their families, including child protective services, mental health services, educational institutions, and the juvenile justice system.
• Study the allocation and use of state resources to preventative and rehabilitative services that address the primary challenges facing Texas youth placed in the juvenile justice system, including the redirection of those resources as necessary to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
• Study the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health needs of Texas youth and identification of effective treatment strategies.
• Study the expansion of prevention efforts and the strengthening of service systems to permit the behavioral health challenges faced by Texas youth to be addressed closer to their homes, including efforts and systems that permit youth to remain in their classrooms and stay out of institutionalized healthcare and juvenile justice systems.
• Study programs, services, and governmental action focused on the rehabilitation of youthful offenders, including considerations related to developmental factors that impact a youth's entry into the justice system.
Note: Appointed by Speaker Dade Phelan 9/16/2021, pursuant to Rule 1, Section 16(b), House Rules. Proclamation, 9/16/2021

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