Aug 5, 2019, WBIW, Bedford, IN: Central Indiana Schools Participate in Mental Health Training http://www.wbiw.com/2019/08/05/central-indiana-schools-participate-in-mental-health-training/ A number of central Indiana school districts that approved the expansion of mental health services for the new school year are participating in training to help staff spot struggling students. Franciscan Health is one of the agencies hosting what is called QPR — Question, Persuade, Refer — training to schools all around central Indiana. The goal of the training is to make teachers more comfortable talking to kids about mental health so that struggling students can get the help they need. … Experts say the time of thinking that your child is immune from mental health struggles is over. “It is everyone, and that is what is scary. The data is having to go down into like 10- and 11-year-olds because we have kids in elementary attempting suicide,” said Turner…. “Mental health, we can no longer brush it under the rug. We have to address it because it is real,” said Turner. Indiana now requires schools to offer at least two hours of mental health training for their staff members. … can come down to three simple things: “caring, compassionate, and just listen.” Experts say major changes in behavior, anger or hopelessness that may point toward a mental health struggle are a major change in behavior, anger, or hopelessness. …
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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.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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