{"id":298972,"date":"2026-10-03T09:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298972\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:26:47","slug":"new-data-on-pennsylvania-student-thoughts-of-safety-and-mental-health-harrisburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298972\/","title":{"rendered":"New Data on Pennsylvania Student Thoughts of Safety and Mental Health | Harrisburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students in Pennsylvania public schools are self reporting slight improvements in overall mental health and feeling safe at school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Results of the 2025 Pennsylvania Youth Survey were presented to leaders in the departments of education, drug and alcohol services, and commission on crime and delinquency this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a 5% increase of students reporting good overall mental health, compared to the 2023 survey. Feeling safe at school also saw a 5% increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fewer students reported suicidal ideation, but still, one in seven students seriously considered suicide in the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bullying instances have stayed consistent, though more students believe that adults do intervene when bullying happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, students increasingly believe there are health and safety risks associated with alcohol, marijuana, smoking, and prescription drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biannual survey asks 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12 graders a variety of questions on school safety and culture. Fourth graders will also soThis is the third published survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a copy of the report made to executive leaders, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/content\/dam\/copapwp-pagov\/en\/pccd\/documents\/juvenile-justice\/pays\/pays%20presentation%20to%20the%20sssc%209-30-26.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about the Pennsylvania Youth Survey, and to access reports from prior years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/pccd\/programs-and-services\/juvenile-justice-and-delinquency-prevention\/pays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students in Pennsylvania public schools are self reporting slight improvements in overall mental health and feeling safe at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2288,37,28,5929,30,29],"class_list":["post-298972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bureau","tag-harrisburg","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-capitol","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}