President Obama speaking at the memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT. Source: The White House.

President Obama speaking at the memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT. Source: The White House.

President Obama wants to add together up to 1,000 more mental wellness counselors and safe officers in the nation's schools to improve safety. The President's program for gun control, released Midweek morning and based on the recommendations of Vice President Joe Biden's commission, calls for creation of a Comprehensive Schoolhouse Condom Programme that seeks to prevent school fighting and bullying besides as violent attacks on schools.

The program, developed in the aftermath of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 26 people dead, including 20 start class children, would brand available $150 meg through grants for school districts and law enforcement agencies to hire schoolhouse psychologists, social workers, counselors and school resource officers.  Information technology's up to individual districts whether they want to apply for these funds, but California alone has about a thousand districts.

"We need to make our schools safer, non only past enhancing their physical security and making sure they are prepared to reply to emergencies like a mass shooting, but also past creating safer and more than nurturing school climates that help foreclose schoolhouse violence," according to the plan, titled Now Is the Time.

The plan also cites a report by the U.Due south. Clandestine Service and Section of Education following the Columbine shooting that plant ane of the best ways of reducing school violence is by creating an environs that fosters trust and advice betwixt staff and students, improves attendance and reduces dangerous beliefs, such as drug abuse.

The president is too recommending a new initiative called Project Aware (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Educational activity) that would provide $15 meg to train teachers and staff to recognize mental wellness issues in children and young adults and encourage them to seek professional help. Another $40 million in Project AWARE would become toward collaboration among school districts, mental health agencies and law enforcement to ensure that students are referred to the appropriate agencies to get the help they need.

U.Southward. Secretary of Pedagogy Arne Duncan praised the report. "The actions that the president is taking and proposing to reduce gun violence repeat what America's educators say they demand to improve protect and support students in school and in their communities," said Duncan.

Responding directly to school shootings, the plan requires every school to take a comprehensive emergency direction plan and recommends that Congress provide $30 million in 1-time grants to help schools pay for implementing these plans.

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