Posted on 07/23/2004 4:26:02 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
CHICAGO -- This week, a series of public forums on a program requiring all pregnant women and children through age 18 years to be tested for mental health needs is being held this week in five different locations statewide.
One group of parents learned about the state's plans to proceed with this program and on Monday issued an alarm asking for parents and citizens concerned about the new program to voice their opinions at the forums.
"We're moving toward social training over academic training with this program," Larry Trainor, a Mt. Prospect parent of four children and a contact for Citizens Commission on Human Rights, based in Los Angeles, said today.
"Since psychiatric involvement in education, SAT scores have gone down for the past few decades. Evaluating mental conditions is not based on scientific evidence, it's subjective," he said.
The $10 million plan for the setup of the Children's Mental Health Act of 2003 is being considered at this week's public forums starting Monday, July 18 in Champaign.
Signed into law, the bill passed the Illinois General Assembly last spring, sponsored in the House by State Representatives Julie Hamos (D-Evanston) and Patricia Bellock (R-Westmont). State Senator Maggie Crotty (D-Oak Forest) and Susan Garrett (D-Highwood) shepherded the legislation through the Senate.
The legislation passed the House with a 107 to 5 vote, and the Senate unanimously.
"What if they find a student has a math disorder, a reading disorder. Would that be a mental health disorder, one that would cause the parents to put their children with a drug for a condition they may or may not have?" Trainor asked.
The mental health program will develop a mental health system for "all children ages 0-18 years," provide for screening to "ensure appropriate and culturally relevant assessment of young children's social and emotional development with the use of standardized tools."
Also, all pregnant women will be screened for depression and thereafter following her baby's birth, up to one year. Follow-up treatment services will also be provided.
Trainor said that he is trying to get parents and citizens out to voice their opinion about the new program.
Apparently, children's mental health will be assessed along with their academic standards in the new proposed testing. The Illinois State Board of Education has been given the responsibility to develop the appropriate tests, according to last year's legislation.
The Task Force hosting the public forums this week are to send a recommendation to Governor Blagojevich by the end of the summer, according to the Act (HB 2900).
Developing story . . .
This is almost the same law they are enacting in Washington State, correct? Who comes up with this stuff? I would swear Hillary was already President.
Glad I don't have kids...for once.
>>>>The project was funded by a Robert Wood Johnson grant—and by several drug companies.
That Robert Wood Johnson grant is listed here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts?page=23#23
This is the Clinton Health Plan.
>>>>I would swear Hillary was already President.
Clinton signed something while in office. I can't figure out what it was and what it meant. It allowed for some merging of our government offices with UN groups. I can't explain it any better than that because I don't understand it.
THIS is part of Healthy People. This will affect you whether you have kids or not:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
They're trying to find ways to get around the Constitution, and it won't be just Second Amendment rights they go after.
You are correct of course but that does not seem to stop any government any longer.
Not only is this a violations of privacy, but to involve a group of so called doctors, Psychiatrists in any decision making process is absurd beyond the pale. Psychiatry is not sound science. Their conclusions cannot pass basic scientific tests of repeatability and verifiability.
If it were not for the fact that doctors stick together psychiatry would be labeled as a fraud just as is-slime is a fake religion.
What I don't understand is when a Locale vs. Federal level signs on, are they merging with the UN?
This just in:
It sounds no different than the current "working groups" negotiating in the dark about implementing uniform laws with Canada and Mexico. It needs to be exposed then stopped.
>>>It needs to be exposed then stopped.
How? What do we do?
Scary stuff.
Enjoy the cradle to grave nanny state. Obviously, it's what Americans truly want. They keep voting for it.
The ozone hole might be closing.
We're exposing it now. With the working groups some congressmen have already sent letters to the administration demanding answers so the pressure is having an effect. It's mostly because of the internet that it's happening.
We've also got to keep up the pressure up on what's going here. I've already read some states are looking at rejecting mandatory mental health screening and there'll probably be more.
Thank God for the internet! (or should that be Gore?)
/bad attempt at making light of the subject
Not sure if it's list material, but it's horrible for sure. Reminds me of "The Once and Future King" and the signs in the ant colony - Whatever Is Not Prohibited Is Mandatory.
Good grief, if you live in IL run for your life! This is (excuse the pun)absolutely crazy!
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