tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post2461569204164525265..comments2024-03-15T05:45:01.402-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Expanding mental healthcare in schools would reduce crimeGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-18738549644030501162007-11-28T06:34:00.000-06:002007-11-28T06:34:00.000-06:00One reason children are not receiving adequate men...One reason children are not receiving adequate mental health treatment is because the funding for such services is fundamentally broken. I am a counselor in private practice and I do not take children clients unless I have to because the demands on my time are different. <BR/><BR/>An adult client comes to my office for a 50-minute session, pays his bill and comes back next week for his next appointment.<BR/><BR/>A child client, however, comes to my office for a 50-minute session but then I'm expected to show up in court, at the school's IEP meetings and work with the parents. I still get paid for one hour but actually put 5-10 hours into the child's treatment that week. <BR/><BR/>I love working with children, but I'd got bankrupt if I tried to provide services to very many children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-26185264063729771232007-11-27T08:09:00.000-06:002007-11-27T08:09:00.000-06:00This would only happen when combined with stigmati...This would only happen when combined with stigmatization for those treated. Is this a good thing? I can just see the teasing and the false identification. Anyone who disagrees with the political agenda of schools will see the psychiatric counselor for "re education". Just like in the ole USSR.JT Barriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571868033521182864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-89537164788535414452007-11-26T21:59:00.000-06:002007-11-26T21:59:00.000-06:00At one time, I worked for CPS - I found that agenc...At one time, I worked for CPS - I found that agency to be failing kids, so I went to work for TYC. At least there, the majority of the people in management as well as in direct service, seemed to be intent on helping kids. Most of the kids I have seen in TYC over the past 17 years are what I would call CPS failures. Sure, there are some true criminals among them, some of whom come from good homes, but the vast majority come from backgrounds of neglect; neglect from their parents, neglect from the school systems and neglect from the very agencies, such as CPS and MHMR that are supposed to help them. <BR/><BR/>From whence does all the institutional neglect stem? From our state's refusal to spend the money necessary to provide the services they need. That is the same reason TYC has been failing - it has not failed for lack of effort on the part of most TYC employees (including those poor souls who used to inhabit central office). <BR/><BR/>What do our political leaders provide us with? Biannual cuts in funding, followed by flashy "reforms". It happened at CPS, it happened at MHMR, and now it is happening at TYC. When will it end? Old SaltyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-17585635588301006462007-11-26T20:11:00.000-06:002007-11-26T20:11:00.000-06:00Excuse me, but isn't the public EDUCATION system ...Excuse me, but isn't the public EDUCATION system supposed to be EDUCATING children? Remember Reading...writing...math? But nowadays, due to a total systemic breakdown, the public schools are expected to provide everything else from parenting skills to family therapy. We try and then everyone cries about how Johnny can't read. And now ya'll are blaming the public schools for the woes of a lame ass agency like TYC (that can't even agree on a Use of Force policy). When's the last time any of you set foot in a public school? How about a special ed class like mine with 4 emotionally disturbed kids, an autistic kid, 2 MR kids and a couple of average IQ thugs? <BR/>And what do you think school "counselors" are trained for anyway? Academic counseling Einstein, NOT MH treatment. By the way, on my campus<BR/>we have a grand total of 2 social workers for almost 2,600 hormone charged, drama king & queen teenagers...you do the math.<BR/><BR/>Let's tell it like it is: Until folks put the tax money where their loud mouths are and adequately fund education, mental health, corrections, etc. so that good people can do their jobs right, then there really is no answer to this problem. Face it, we live in a society that doesn't blink when a steroid abusing idiot gets 20 Million a year for swinging a bat, but just try asking for a few million to fund after school tutoring or medication for mental illness or life skills training. <BR/><BR/>So yes, many children go through a lot of systems and countless of them ultimately end up in places like TYC and adult prisons. Well, it just goes to prove the saying that you always get what you pay for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-24705238919753191302007-11-26T14:43:00.000-06:002007-11-26T14:43:00.000-06:00"Expanding Mental Health Care in Schools Would Red..."Expanding Mental Health Care in Schools Would Reduce Crime."<BR/><BR/>There's just no answer...... <BR/><BR/>Well, there is but we can't say that. Nor that! Nor that! and we certainly cannot recommend that either. Nope that won't work. Did that! Hell no! It would never happen! I'll be thrown out of office if I did that! Call....he will know what to do! Shiiieeettt Man, just shoot the M.....F.....'. Did that caused a civil war. Someone else tried that and distroyed half the world. Make parents accountable! AHHH hell that won't work either, both my kids are parents.....!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86732229243019126192007-11-26T14:13:00.000-06:002007-11-26T14:13:00.000-06:00I have always believed that the two biggest govern...I have always believed that the two biggest governmental failures that contributed to TYC's population are (1)a poor education system and (2) inadequate mental health treatment in that order.<BR/><BR/>Howard A. HickmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-17031152365299544152007-11-26T11:48:00.000-06:002007-11-26T11:48:00.000-06:00To 11:43OMGTo 11:43<BR/><BR/>OMGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-39697179965387976532007-11-26T11:43:00.000-06:002007-11-26T11:43:00.000-06:00I think this would cost alot of funding but I gues...I think this would cost alot of funding but I guess reducing crime might decrease funding for the schools. If you think i basicaly have no clue what im saying i dont :)<BR/><BR/>------------------------------<BR/>Help Out www.contactschool.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-52595012678801663462007-11-26T11:01:00.000-06:002007-11-26T11:01:00.000-06:00Scott,What is your opinion on vouchers?I think tha...Scott,<BR/><BR/>What is your opinion on vouchers?<BR/><BR/>I think that competition would produce schools that specialized in the needs of the children.<BR/><BR/>Instead of trying to make each local public school system fit all children- mentally ill, gifted, spanish speaking- vouchers would produce a variety of choices.<BR/><BR/>The mentally ill would not be trapped in a particular district, but could pursue the school that fit their needs.<BR/><BR/>RGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-65795252285374307982007-11-26T07:55:00.000-06:002007-11-26T07:55:00.000-06:00TYC was the main dumping ground for children with ...TYC was the main dumping ground for children with mental disorders. There was little real help for the children at TYC from UTMB. The lack of real mental health care for children in TYC is abuse of the highest order.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com