Oct 9, 2018, Palm Beach (FL) Sun Sentinel: Mental health improvements would cost schools $202 million http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-ne-broward-school-board-mental-health-20181008-story.html
Broward County schools would have to spend about $202 million to provide the recommended number of mental health professionals for students and families, a district report says. …
In order to meet the recommendation from professional counseling and health organizations, the district would need:
— 437 school counselors.
— 312 psychologists.
— 816 family therapists.
— 830 social workers.
— 170 nurses.
School Board members say they plan to lobby the state for more money to hire more staff, which would total $202.3 million if fully funded….
The district has been working with a number of local, national and international organizations to deal with mental health issues since Stoneman Douglas, including the Global Center for School Counseling, the University of South Carolina and Broward Behavioral Health Coalition. …
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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.
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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.
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