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NEW - NASP participates in a U.S. Senate hearing on “Children and Disaster Recovery” on December 10, 2009

Capitol Hill Recognizes National School Psychology Week and the Work of School Psychologists

Send a personal invitation to your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative to attend a bipartisan bicameral briefing in honor of National School Psychology Awareness Week
Legislative Alert: Send a letter to your U.S. representative asking for his/her support of “Reducing Barriers to Learning Act of 2009”
Review the National School Psychology Week House Resolution and Senate Resolution recently introduced in Congress
Legislative Alert: Send a letter to your U.S. Senators and Representative asking them to sign on as a cosponsor of a resolution designating November 9-13, 2009 as National School Psychology Week
Action Request: NASP needs you to call or email your US Senators to ask for their support restoring funding for school-mental heath related programs
NASP Advocacy Roadmap: School-Based Medicaid Reimbursement
How to Promote School Psychological Services Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Advocacy Alert: Send a letter to the APA expressing your opposition to the proposed removal of the school psychologist exemption from the MLA
NASP Response to APA's Model Act for State Licensure
Information on the 2009 NASP Public Policy Institute
NASP Advocacy Roadmap: Preserving and Promoting School Psychological Services
Legislative Alert: Send a letter to your U.S. Representative asking for his/her support of “Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act”
Research on the relationship between mental health and academic achievement
Legislative Alert: Send a letter to your U.S. Senators and Representative asking to pass the “Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008”
Ready to Learn, Empowered to Teach: Excellence in Education for the 21st Century - National Association of School Psychologists: Guiding Principles for Effective Education—August 2008
Increased Student Achievement through Increased Student Support Act Introduced into the U.S. House and Senate, July 30, 2008
Proposed Regulations to Strengthen NCLB Released for Public Comment, April 23, 2008
Advocacy Alert: Participate in the National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day, May 8, 2008
Legislative Alert: Send a letter to your U.S. Representative asking for his/her support of HR 5613, the Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008
Loan Forgiveness for School Psychologists
The NASP Advocacy Roadmap for States: Navigating a State Level Response to the APA Model Act for the State Licensure of Psychologists
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's Mental Health Panel
NASP Position on APA Model Act Revisions
2007 NASP/GWU Public Policy Institute
NASP Advocates for School Psychology on Capitol Hill - 2007
Legislative Alerts