Aug 26, 2019, Manhattan (KS) Mercury: Pawnee Mental Health crisis center on track to open in October https://themercury.com/news/pawnee-mental-health-crisis-center-on-track-to-open-in/article_8a85d382-a192-5f9e-bf64-1606198962cf.html Workers are finishing up Pawnee Mental Health Service’s crisis stabilization center, and the organization hopes to host a ribbon-cutting in October, executive director Robbin Cole told the Riley County Commission Monday. The crisis stabilization center — which will primarily serve Geary, Pottawatomie and Riley counties, although the center could be used by anyone in the organization’s 10-county service area — will offer an alternative to jail or hospitals for people dealing with mental health issues…. Cole also told the commission that Pawnee currently works with Northview and Ogden elementary schools to provide on-site therapy services one day a week. Pawnee recently received a two-year, $7,500 grant from the U.S. Department of Education to build the skills of its mental health professionals to better respond to the needs of children with mental health problems. “There’s been a lot of recognition of the mental health needs of children, and there’s been recognition that if we can intervene early and soon, we can help prevent the development of more serious mental health problems as they grow into teens and then adults,” Cole said. Cole said Pawnee and the Manhattan-Ogden school district are also working together using a $16,000 grant from the state to fund a school mental health liaison. While the funds aren’t enough to hire for a full-time position, Cole said Pawnee staff will use the funds to allocate therapist time among the schools as well as designate case manager time to respond to the needs of students with mental health problems. …
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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).
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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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