Unbelievable, sounds like a violation of people's privacy to me.
Orwell was right. He was just off by 20 years.
This stuff scares me to death.
Definitely a violation of privacy! Straight out of the Nazi play book.
So now propaganda is not enough mind control for them, it isn't working in the numbers they had hoped, so they have to make sure that the public thinks correctly? Who decides what correct thought is? shudddddder.
While this program sounds like a bad idea, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights is a front group for Scientology, so I wouldn't put much faith in what they say.
Was that REALLY signed into law!?! That is going WAY too far. Over my cold, dead body would that happen to my family.
How do they define "mental health"?
Is Christianity defined as needing intervention by the state?
Yikes! Run for the hills, get out of there.
Brought to you by the same folks who think every kid needs to be doped up to "cope".
Welcome to the DemocRATic Peoples Republik of Illinois, your papers please!
"a program requiring all pregnant women and children through age 18 years to be tested for mental health... "
And those will fail........ will be...... GASSED !?
Ja wohl, mein Fuehrer !
What is the Illinois Children's Mental Health Act (ICMHA) of 2003 and what needs is it designed to address?Hmmmm ... the April 2003 Report of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Task Force, Children's Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois.The ICMHA of 2003 (P.A. 93-9485) is based on recommendations in the April 2003 Report of the Illinois Children's Mental Health Task Force, Children's Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois.
The Task Force Report demonstrates the need for greater coordination of mental health services for Illinois children and calls on the State to make children's mental health a priority through the creation of a continuum of care from prevention through early intervention, and treatment.
The Children's Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois report can be read here: Children's Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois (pdf format)
Foreward:
FOREWORD In the spring of 2001, a small group of advocates and education leaders visited a high school in Illinois. The issues facing students were striking and disturbing - students were depressed, traumatized by exposure to violence in the home and community, and greatly in need of someone to talk to about their anxieties and concerns. The group decided to convene a workgroup to explore children?s mental health. This workgroup produced a White Paper and recommended that the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority convene a Task Force on Children?s Mental Health, which began its work in June of 2002.It is with great pleasure that the Illinois Children?s Mental Health Task Force presents its Final Report, Children?s Mental Health: An Urgent Priority for Illinois. Over 100 people from various backgrounds and professions worked diligently to research the findings and formulate the recommendations contained in the Report. The Report represents a first major step in the long haul work of creating a mental health system that is truly responsive to the social and emotional development needs of children.
Research has clearly demonstrated that social and emotional well-being is essential for children?s healthy development and critical to their ability to learn and succeed in life. Mental health promotion for children of all ages must be as high a priority for families and child serving systems as academic preparedness and physical health. Children are born with great promise, and we must do everything possible to help them develop socially and emotionally so they can meet the challenges of learning and living in today?s complex society. Unfortunately, many children including very young children experience psychological trauma and mental health problems that, if untreated, negatively affect their brain, their behavior, and their academic and social success. Services must reach these young children and their families early to avoid more serious and costly problems. A full range of treatment services must also be available for those children who suffer from serious mental health disorders.
I'm unclear on this -- is it all pregnant women, or pregnant women up to age 18?
Sounds like a brilliant plan to reduce prenatal care, if you ask me. I have a 2-1/2 yr old, a 1 yr old, and I'm due in less than 3 weeks with #3. I wonder if I'd pass their "mental health" tests??? LOL
Don't tell me... Illinois is one of those "red" states?
BTTT
It's things like this that make me glad I moved to FL....
Of course, it really depends on the details. We already have all sorts of public health policies, like immunizations and check for certain diseases.
If this is a program that will provide early identification of postpartum depression and psychosis or children at risk of major mental illness, like depression, psychosis, etc., then I think it is a good thing. However, how are they going to pay for it?
The best way to fight something like this is to teach the pregnant women and children the "proper" responses to insure they won't be ensnared by the system. The "evaluations" will likely consist of little more than a few questions about how you feeeeeeeel, so just spread the word on how to ensure your kids tell their teachers they feeeeeeel just fine. Find out what the tests will be like, and run off copies of the "Correct" responses and plaster them all over telephone poles, supermarket bulletin boards, etc.
Barbara Shaw, Director of the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority has been appointed Partnership Chairwoman. Referring to the challenging task before her committee, she commented,
"I look forward to working with the Partnership and the Blagojevich Administration to build our children's social and emotional strength so they can become happy, achieving students and productive, caring citizens. We expect that Illinois will be a national leader in this effort." -- from Illinois.gov
New year brings new laws
Another new law permits criminal charges against gun owners who fail to store weapons safely _ perhaps by using trigger locks _ in cases where a child ends up injuring someone with the gun. The gun owner could be fined and jailed for 30 days.
Such laws won't stop gun violence, but they can have a real impact, said Barbara Shaw, director of the Illinois Violence Prevention Authority.
``The more society puts its collective foot down, so to speak, the more deterrence we´ll have,´´ she said.
--www.beloitdailynews.com/1299/2ill31.htm