June 21, 2018, Camden (SC) Chronicle-Independent: Partnership to provide counseling for KC students http://www.chronicle-independent.com/section/45/article/50685/ As new violent incidents in schools across the country are reported daily, more and more school administrators are exploring increasing counseling to students. One partnership hopes to bring critical mental health resources to Kershaw County high schools while offering training for rising psychologists. The Community Medical Clinic (CMC) of Kershaw County, a nonprofit provider of medical care to the uninsured in Kershaw County, is partnering with the University of South Carolina (USC) School of Psychology to provide mental health counseling in all three of Kershaw County’s high schools. … “We have a lot of kids that struggle with anxiety and depression,” said David Branham, principal of North Central High School. “To have wellness coaches in our schools to help our children through whatever they are facing is invaluable.”… Beginning in the 2018-19 academic year, all three schools will have mental health counselors available for students during the school day. Students can be referred to these counselors by the school administrators as well as school nurses, teachers and guidance counselors. The program is led by doctoral students in school mental health. “Our partnership with CMC will greatly increase the capacity to promote mental health at Kershaw County schools,” said Bret Kloos, Ph.D., professor of psychology at USC and director of the Clinical-Community Psychology Doctoral Training Program. “It also provides valuable training experience and collaboration for our students that complements our training program.”…
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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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