Manual addresses full-service community schools, which address non-academic and out-of-school barriers to learning through partnerships with social and health service agencies and providers for integrated student supports.

E. Health services means services provided for students to appraise, protect, and promote health. These services are designed to ensure access or referral to primary health care or behavioral health services or both, foster appropriate use of primary health care services, behavioral health services, prevent and control communicable diseases and other health problems, provide emergency care for illness or injury, promote and provide optimum sanitary conditions for a safe school facility and school environment, and provide educational and counseling opportunities for promoting and maintaining individual, family, and community health.

D. The wellness policy shall include, but shall not be limited to:

• (1) a planned, sequential, K-12 health education curriculum that addresses the physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of health and is aligned to the health education content Standard with benchmarks and performance Standard as set forth in 6.30.2.19 NMAC;
• (2) a planned, sequential, K-12 physical education curriculum that provides the optimal opportunity for all students to learn and develop skills, knowledge and attitudes necessary to personally decide to participate in lifetime healthful physical activity and is aligned to the physical education content Standard with benchmarks and performance Standard as set forth in 6.30.2.20 NMAC;
• (3) guidelines to provide physical activity opportunities to students before, during and after school;
• (4) nutrition guidelines meeting Standard established by federal rules at 7 CFR 210.11 and 7 CFR 210.11a, the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966;
• (5) guidelines for fund raisers established at 6.12.5 NMAC and an annual assurance of compliance with limitations on fund raisers established at 6.12.5 NMAC;
• (6) a plan addressing the behavioral health needs of all students in the educational process by focusing on students' social and emotional wellbeing;

Manual addresses school-based or school-linked mental health services.

E. A public school shall provide interventions to students who are absent or chronically absent, which may include:

• (1) assessing student and family needs and matching those needs with appropriate public or private providers, including civic and corporate sponsors;
• (2) making referrals to health care and social service providers;
• (3) collaborating and coordinating with health and social service agencies and organizations through school-based and off-site delivery systems;
• (4) recruiting service providers and business, community and civic organizations to provide needed services and goods that are not otherwise available to a student or the student’s family;
• (5) establishing partnerships between the public school and community organizations, such as civic, business and professional groups and organizations and recreational, social and out-of-school programs;
• (6) identifying and coordinating age-appropriate resources for students in need of:
• (a) counseling, training and placement for employment;
• (b) drug and alcohol abuse counseling;
• (c) family crisis counseling; and
• (d) mental health counseling;
• (7) promoting family support and parent education programs; and
• (8) seeking out other services or goods that a student or the student’s family needs to assist the student to stay in school and succeed.

A.  A “family and youth resources program” may be created in any public school in the state. Except as provided in Subsection D of this section, the department shall accept applications for grants from public schools in which eighty percent of the students are eligible for the free or reduced-fee lunch program to fund their program.

B.  The purpose of the program is to provide an intermediary for students and their families at public schools to access social and health care services. The goal of the program is to forge mutual long-term relationships with public and private agencies and community-based, civic and corporate organizations to help students attain high academic achievement by meeting certain nonacademic needs of students and their families.

C.  A program shall include the employment of a resource liaison, who shall:

• (1)  assess student and family needs and match those needs with appropriate public or private providers, including civic and corporate sponsors;
• (2)  make referrals to health care and social service providers;
• (3)  collaborate and coordinate with health and social service agencies and organizations through school-based and off-site delivery systems;
• (4)  recruit service providers and business, community and civic organizations to provide needed services and goods that are not otherwise available to a student or the student’s family;
• (5)  establish partnerships between the school and community organizations such as civic, business and professional groups and organizations; and recreational, social and after-school programs such as boys’ and girls’ clubs and boy and girl scouts;
• (6)  identify and coordinate age-appropriate resources for students in need of:
• (a)  counseling, training and placement for employment;
• (b)  drug and alcohol abuse counseling;
• (c)  family crisis counseling; and
• (d)  mental health counseling;
• (7)  promote family support and parent education programs; and
• (8)  seek out other services or goods a student or the student’s family needs to assist the student to stay in school and succeed.

D.  A public school or group of public schools that has received a grant to establish a family and youth resources program may continue to be eligible for funding if its percentage of students eligible for the free or reduced-fee price lunch program drops below eighty percent, so long as it maintains an average of eighty percent or more for any three-year period.