[Health&Healing] Ilinois Lauches Compulsory Mental Health Screening

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This is really scary... Supported by the pharma industry for

sure... Consider that we are already at the day and age where your

child can be taken away from you if you disagree with the TEACHER or

SOCIAL WORKER (not even a doctor, but that can happen too) who says

you have to put your child on ritalin or other mental meds and you

refuse.

Misty L. Trepke

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ILLINOIS launches compulsory mental health screening

 

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COMMENTARYBIG BROTHER WATCH:

ILLINOIS launches compulsory mental health screening

for children and pregnant women

The Leader-Chicago Bureau

 

CHICAGO -- Monday, July 19, 2004 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.

 

Orwellian program in Illinois seeks to place all pregnant women and

children through compulsory screening for " mental defectives. " -

 

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. TOP " 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).

 

The above is 2004 the Illinois Leader™, All Rights

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This is a Developing story . . . Thank you to We Hold These Truths

for alerting us

 

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