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to Life Skills at
Special Message
Recorded, April 14, 2021.
KRGV TV—McAllen
Aired April 27. 2021
Armando Martinez, State Representative, District 39 presenting HB 4023 before House Public Education Committee.
Life Skills 2.0
Bills filed Passed Governor
in the House House vote Vetos
4,671 587 12
Life Skills expressed in HB4023 caption reads:
Relating to establishing a pilot program to employ a life skills counselor at public high school campuses in certain counties.
87th Texas Regular Session - 2021
May 14. 2021
HB 4023 passed the House by 114 votes.
May 17, received in the Senate where its
journey ended.
Recorded July 2020
Recorded September 2020
Danielle Silva
STYC Member
Weslaco HS Senior 2021.
Danielle Silva, introduction to Life Skills 2.0 bill proposal.
Time 01:57
Interview with Noemi and Santiago, co-authors of Life Skills 2.0 proposal. The key aspects of the proposal are reflected in HB 4023 in the 87th Texas legislative session, 2021.
Noemi Cavazos
La Grulla HS Senior
Santiago Carbajal
World Scholars HS Senior
Time 07:57
Santiago Carbajal and Noemi Cavazos with an update
and on a zoom visit with State Representative Armando Martinez.
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Alyssa Cole—KRGV Channel 5 News
Texas Rep. Armando ‘Mando” Martinez (D-Weslaco) teamed up with high school students in the Valley to create a proposal to add additional certified counselors to schools in the region.
Martinez introduced House Bill 4023 on Tuesday during the Public Education Committee in Austin; it calls for a ‘life skill counselor pilot program’ for schools in all 14 counties along the southern border of Texas.
High school senior Santiago Carbajal said there is a desperate need for life skills and mental health counselors in public schools.
Carbajal said counselors in the Valley have about 500 students assigned to them, while the National School Counselor Associated recommends a ratio of one to 250.
“What we want to do is bring in a life skills counselor that will actually take care of counseling,” Carbajal said.
The senior is part of the South Texas Youth Congress, a group of non-partisan high school students along the U.S.-Mexico border working on getting that need addressed by lawmakers.
“It’s very important that we talk about this,” Martinez said. “Because this collaborates with administrators, counselors, social workers, mental health professionals, [and] local law enforcement agencies to address student mental health needs.”
HB 4023 remains a proposal; it is up for a vote before the Public Education Committee next week. If approved, the bill will move to the House for debate.
PROFILE
August 2020
Student Stanford University. B.S. Candidate 2024
Civil engineering major and energy resources engineering minor.
Three titles from your playlist:
Glory, by John Legend,
Where Is The Love? By Black Eyed Peas,
Parecen Viernes by Marc Anthony.
Book you would like to read again:
The Harry Potter series.
Best three movies/docu/videos you’ve seen this summer:
About time, Souls, Same Kind of Different as Me.
Three people you would like to have dinner with:
Michelle Obama, Paulo Coelho, and my 5 year old self.
A favored quote:
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
-Kahlil Gibran
Your thoughts on the times we are living in:
Thoughts? With physical distance most evident during the times of the pandemic, I also see the distance between our differences shrinking as people unite in solidarity across distinct causes.
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