Sept 4, 2018, Jacksonville (NC) Daily News: Onslow County Schools to implement school-based services for students http://www.jdnews.com/news/20180904/onslow-county-schools-to-implement-school-based-services-for-students A plan to bring mental health services to Onslow County students during the school day is expected to begin sometime this school year. The Onslow County Board of Education heard a presentation Tuesday on a plan for a partnership between Onslow County Schools and Trillium Health Resources that will arrange for mental health providers to address student needs in the school setting…. “We’re very excited about the opportunity,” said OCS Executive Director of Student Services Brendan Gartner…. “Recent studies show 1 in 5 students between ages 12 and 15 will be diagnosed with a mental health issue,” he said during the presentation. Schools will identify students in need of services and complete an established referral process that includes parental consent. If determined eligible, individual therapy services on campus would be available during the school day…. Through grant funding, the school district will employ two mental health/behavioral specialists to provide support and training for teachers to help them address mental health needs of students so they can be successful in the classroom. “Teachers face mental health issues in the classroom every day but they are not mental health providers,” Gartner said.
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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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