Jan 8, 2018, (Nova Scotia, Canada) Bedford Sackville Chronicle: SchoolsPlus: more Valley sites equals more support http://thechronicleherald.ca/bedfordsackvilleobserver/1534752-schoolsplus-more-valley-sites-equals-more-support More youth, families and teachers in the Annapolis Valley are benefitting from additional mental health and social supports that rolled out this past fall, says the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board’s (AVRSB) supervisor of School Support Services. … SchoolsPlus connects students and parents to clinicians, social workers and other supports for mental health issues like anxiety, depression, addictions or behavioural problems from triggers they may encounter at home or school, including impacts from trauma or poverty. … The program has rolled out incrementally to each of the province’s eight school boards since 2012 by Education and Early Childhood Development. … Now 73 per cent of schools across the province have access to it. The expansion created positions for three social workers — one to facilitate each hub site serving a family of schools — as well as a total of 11 new community outreach workers and eight new mental health clinicians.
Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.