This winter and spring,130 public schools across North Carolina will receive mental and behavioral health training and consultation through the North Carolina Psychiatry Access Line.
Officially, those services are designed “to ensure participating K-12 school staff have the support they need to help their students who may be dealing with mental and behavioral health concerns. The program is free to local schools as part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services [NCDHHS] StrongSchoolsNC COVID-19 Testing Program.”
In a Thursday, Dec. 8 press release, the NCDHHS stated that there’s an urgent and tremendous need to support behavioral health efforts in schools across the state.
The release points out that, during the pandemic, the rate of children discharged from an emergency department with a behavioral health condition increased by as much as 70 percent.
NCDHHS Secretary Kody H. Kinsley explained the good things he believes the support will bring about.
“The North Carolina Psychiatry Access Line expands access to mental health care for children in a dramatic way,” Kinsley stated. “Now, staff in 130 schools will have direct access to psychiatric experts who can help them better support our students. Expanding access to psychiatric experts is one of the many ways we are investing in behavioral health as well as the well-being of children and families across North Carolina.”
According to NCDHHS officials, moving forward, school administrators and counselors won’t need to worry that they don’t have the “tools and support to succeed in their work with youth experiencing emotional distress, having suicidal thoughts or struggling with aggressive behaviors.”
School behavioral health teams working will have access to a child psychiatry expert who will provide consultation and training based on behavioral health concerns.
Ever since the pandemic, there’s been a high need for more mental help support services in schools.
When I was in grade school (during the Hoover administration), there were no mental and behavioral issues that I remember. Mebbe a few needed an attitude adjustment, that’s about it.
I suggest that all these “issues” are created by the govt, social media, and the rabid press.
Some of these need to attend class in a FEMA cage; but it’s not all their fault. It is their social enviornment, and the breakdown of the American Family.
Just make me King of the USA.
Eliminate corporal punishment and this is what you get. And I agree with how/who created these “problems”.
Hopefully these resources won’t steer even more youth to powerful mind altering mood stabilizers, amphetamine type study drugs, or anti anxiety medications that all have serious side effects that are amplified in younger people.
Also help from the same Mandate Maskers of the past few years is like an abuser paying for their abusers counceling.