Aug 26, 2019, North Port (FL) Sun: Sarasota Schools employees undergo mental health awareness training https://www.yoursun.com/northport/sarasota-schools-employees-undergo-mental-health-awareness-training/article_67616706-c807-11e9-9d38-973e2789a6fa.html Sarasota County Schools employees, in compliance with state law, are undergoing mental health gatekeeper training. Teachers, administrators and staff members will be prepared to lead conversations about mental health following their completion of the Kognito At-Risk training program. Kognito, a health simulation company, offers trainings on trauma-informed teaching, bullying prevention, LGBTQ cultural competency, and substance use, in addition to mental health and suicide prevention. … “We are seeing our teachers, administrators and staff members do well above the minimum, state-mandated requirements for mental health awareness education," said Debra Giacolone, the district's supervisor of Mental and Behavioral Health Services. As of Aug. 21, Sarasota County had logged 3,945 employees who completed the required online module. Four face-to-face sessions were offered at the school district’s headquarters two days later to allow personnel to complete their mental health awareness education requirements.
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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.
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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.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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