Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 115 Part 2.djvu/831

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PUBLIC LAW 107-110—JAN. 8, 2002 115 STAT. 1815 "(D) describe how the local educational agency will involve community groups, social service agencies, and other public and private entities in collaborative efforts to enhance the program and promote school-linked services integration; "(E) document that the local educational agency has the personnel qualified to develop, implement, and administer the program; "(F) describe how diverse cultural populations, if applicable, will be served through the program; "(G) assure that the funds made available under this subpart for any fiscal year will be used to supplement, and not supplant, any other Federal, State, or local funds used for providing school-based counseling and mental health services to students; and "(H) assure that the applicant will appoint an advisory board composed of interested parties, including parents, teachers, school administrators, counseling services providers described in subsection (c)(2)(D), and community leaders, to advise the local educational agency on the design and implementation of the program. "(c) USE OF FUNDS. — "(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to award grants to local educational agencies to enable the local educational agencies to initiate or expand elementary school or secondary school counseling programs that comply with the requirements of paragraph (2). "(2) REQUIREMENTS.— Each program funded under this section shall— "(A) be comprehensive in addressing the counseling and educational needs of all students; "(B) use a developmental, preventive approach to counseling; "(C) increase the range, availability, quantity, and quality of counseling services in the elementary schools and secondary schools of the local educational agency; "(D) expand counseling services through qualified school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, other qualified psychologists, or child and adolescent psychiatrists; "(E) use innovative approaches to increase children's understanding of peer and family relationships, work and self, decisionmaking, or academic and career planning, or to improve peer interaction; "(F) provide counseling services in settings that meet the range of student needs; "(G) include in-service training appropriate to the activities funded under this Act for teachers, instructional staff, and appropriate school personnel, including in-service training in appropriate identification and early intervention techniques by school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, other qualified psychologists, and child and adolescent psychiatrists; "(H) involve parents of participating students in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the counseling program;