Posted on 11/13/2017 3:11:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton today called on mental health professionals to create a standardized curriculum to teach middle and high school students nationwide about anxiety and depression.
Mental health experts need to come forward with a curriculum to the boards of education and the administration of school districts and just lobby like crazy to get those into teacher training, into school programming, Clinton said.
She was a panelist at a discussion at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan hosted by the Child Mind Institute, a city-based nonprofit focused on adolescent mental health issues.
In New York mental health education is already being put into action. In October 2016 Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a law, the first of its kind nationwide, requiring it be included in the health curriculum. It will take effect next school year.
The de Blasio administration has also taken steps to address mental health in schools. Two years ago New York City committed to a four-year, $850 million plan to improve mental health services and expand access to treatment. One of the programs six principles is act early, with training provided to teachers to educate children in prekindergarten about coping skills when facing an emotional challenge. The city also said it would hire 100 mental health consultants to help connect students to services. During the 20162017 school year, the city opened 54 school-based clinics....
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Start with the Hildabeast...........
Well, she expects "mental health teaching" to happily co-exist with all the trans-gender crap that the left is pushing into the schools, so of course she want to use kids against their recalcitrant parents.
She in not relevant anymore. She should just shut the hell up.
Their brain washing of children isn’t working well enough or fast enough for them. They have to step it up.
Why is some moron still giving her a place to speak from?
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