Adolescent Mental Health Variables

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  State Choices to Promote Quality
  Require certification by a state agency or board for newly hired school counselors (2006)1 Require certification by a state agency or board for newly hired school social workers (2006)1
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National 48 46
Wyoming Yes Yes
Wisconsin Yes Yes
West Virginia Yes No
Washington Yes Yes
Virginia Yes Yes
Vermont Yes Yes
Utah Yes Yes
Texas No3 No3
Tennessee Yes Yes
South Dakota Yes Yes
South Carolina Yes Yes
Rhode Island Yes Yes
Pennsylvania Yes Yes
Oregon Yes Yes
Oklahoma Yes Yes4
Ohio Yes Yes
North Dakota Yes Yes
North Carolina Yes Yes
New York Yes Yes
New Mexico Yes Yes
New Jersey Yes Yes
New Hampshire Yes Yes
Nevada Yes Yes
Nebraska Yes Yes
Montana Yes Yes
Missouri Yes No
Mississippi Yes Yes
Minnesota Yes Yes
Michigan Yes Yes
Massachusetts Yes Yes
Maryland Yes Yes
Maine Yes Yes
Louisiana No2 Yes
Kentucky Yes Yes
Kansas No No
Iowa Yes Yes
Indiana Yes Yes
Illinois Yes Yes
Idaho Yes Yes
Hawaii Yes Yes
Georgia Yes Yes
Florida Yes Yes
District of Columbia Yes Yes
Delaware Yes Yes
Connecticut Yes Yes
Colorado Yes Yes
California Yes Yes
Arkansas Yes Yes
Arizona Yes No
Alaska Yes Yes
Alabama Yes Yes
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Data Notes & Sources

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. State-Level School Health Policies and Practices: A State-by-State Summary from the School Health Policies and Programs Study 2006. Table 4.5. Accessed Mar. 5, 2010, from www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/SHPPS/2006/summaries/pdf/State_Level_Summaries_SHPPS2006.pdf.
  2. Personal communication from the state indicates that this policy is in place, as of October 2010.
  3. Data not available.
  4. Personal communication from the state indicates that this policy is not in place, as of October 2010.