TeenScreen has loud critics around the country

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And I am thankful.... especially to those on below Wisconsin school boards.

 

 

President George Bush personally backs a drive to screen the entire US

population, beginning with WHO's in school and including preschool children, for

undiagnosed mental illness. Like the " patriot act " , this program bears an

Orwellian ID--ridiculous---New Freedom Initiative Thousands of schools are

already participating in screening their pupils. Some states require parental

consent, but, you can imagine what the default solution is on lost, illegible,

no response to authorization forms---keeping in mind that government bureaucrats

and subsidized pharmaceuticals are involved -- What Teenscreen Doesn't Want

You to Know about Parental Consent

 

 

 

 

It will only get louder as more people are informed with this:

http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html Please pass the word. And,

if you have not signed this petiton, why not take 30 seconds and do so? Can you

imagine anything worse than GWB and executive branch of " our " government having

the authority to determine the " sanity " appropriateness and agreeableness to

him of our school kids' thoughts? He and his cronies are the one that need

" screening, " for my money.

 

see also..

AntidepressantsFacts: Bush, Columbia University & TeenScreen® Program

Do NOT under any circumstances let your child participate in any survey linked

to the Government/Pharmaceutical arrangement called TeenScreen®

www.antidepressantsfacts.com/Bush-TeenScreen-Program.htm - 39k - Cached -

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Scoop: TeenScreen - Normal Kids Labeled Mentally Ill Beware the

needle... " Mudville " Rose.

 

 

 

http://www.kenoshanews.com/articles/index.php?articleNum=8472

 

Kenosha News

TeenScreen under fire in Unified suicide fight

Chris Barncard

Nov 15, 2006

 

Months before a depression/suicide screening could begin in Kenosha schools,

debate on the efficacy and appropriateness of the program is in full swing.

 

Supporters and detractors of Columbia University's TeenScreen addressed a

Kenosha Unified School Board committee Tuesday, holding up the program -

designed to identify suicide risk factors in children age 11-18 - as both a

necessary opportunity for a group under-served by mental health care

professionals and as lawsuit bait overreaching a school district's place in the

community.

 

John Kucak, Unified coordinator of student support, told the School Board's

Curriculum and Program Committee that TeenScreen - a computer-based

questionnaire that would be administered to Unified eighth-graders as part of

their health class unit on mental health issues - was a worthy response to

Unfied's seven confirmed teen suicides since September 2005.

 

" This is a tried-and-true method for identifying kids; otherwise, we would not

consider it, " Kucak said.

 

TeenScreen requires consent from a parent and the assent of the student taking

the 10- to 15-minute questionnaire which deals, in part, with moods, anxiety,

substance abuse and physical health.

 

Students whose answers do not indicate risk factors for suicidal thoughts have a

short meeting with a TeenScreen team member immediately following the screening.

 

Students identified as at risk by the screening meet with a volunteer mental

health professional - also immediately after screening - who assesses the

results and the child. If the professional finds the student to be at risk,

parents are notified for a meeting and offered a referral to mental health care

providers in the area.

 

" This is a screening program that has very successful results, " said Cindy

Johnson, Kenosha County director of nursing and a TeenScreen proponent. " To

receive access to care is really difficult given insurance situations and costs.

TeenScreen is a very good way for children to get an assessment. "

 

But TeenScreen, which is being explored by Unified in association with

Congregations United to Serve Humanity, has loud critics around the country. Amy

Grimely, interim president of the newly formed Kenosha Parents Union,

http://kenoshaparentsunion.org has examined that criticism and believes

TeenScreen is not effective and questions its motives.

 

" I do believe the school district has a problem, " Grimely said. " I do not

believe this is the answer. "

 

Grimely said there is no evidence the program prevents suicide and that it

falsely labels a number of children as being suicidal. She also said the program

was designed by drug companies with the intent of getting more children to take

prescription drugs.

 

She was also disappointed to hear that Unified had been considering the program

since 2004 without opening a dialogue with parents.

 

" They should have been blowing trumpets, saying, 'This is what we are doing,' "

said Grimsely, who pointed to a lawsuit in Indiana that challenges TeenScreen as

a reason for Unified to be cautious.

 

John Nordquist, publisher of the Daily Kenoshan, a community Web site, said

TeenScreen reaches too far into students' lives.

 

" To be saying you need a psychiatrist or you are suicidal, that's not for a

school to say, " Nordquist said.

 

While representatives of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and CUSH

supported the program and the Parents Union, Daily Kenoshan and a group called

Freedom 2000 railed against it, Pierce said the School Board would not likely

take up TeenScreen again in January and look for alternatives in the meantime.

 

Board members on the committee gave TeenScreen little chance.

 

" I don't even know if this can pass, " board member Gilbert Ostman said. " I don't

know how you're going to get by the controversy. "

 

" I'm not sure how much legwork was done in looking into TeenScreen, and where

their funding comes from. From what I've seen, I don't like the roots of this, "

board member Pam Stevens said. " There is no chance I would allow this in this

school district. "

 

Unified would be better off working on a program teaching students to identify

the signs of suicide in each other that the district recently started using in

its high schools, Grimely said.

 

" This is where I would focus our efforts, not on a program that is controversial

around the country, " she said.

 

 

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Let's find more " loud critics around the country " . Pass the word:

http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html

 

Please thank the school board for looking at the facts and urge them to simply

drop TeenScreen altogether . E-mail addresses provided below.

 

Superintendent, Dr. R. Scott Pierce and school board members, Eric Olson, Pam

Stevens, John Fountain, Bernard Englund, Marc Hujik, Mark Stalker and Gilbert

Ostman.

 

spierce, eolson, pamostevens,

dfountai, benglund, marc.hujik, mstalker,

gostman

 

 

 

Avian2005 , " Shag Spencer " <shaaag2000 wrote:

> Dont Let Your Kids Be labelled//THIS IS IMPORTANT

 

 

In 1960, the FDA approves a medication called Ritalin for use by children with

behavior problems. By 1975, about 150,000 children in the U.S. will be taking

Ritalin. By 2005, about 6 million U.S. children will be using Ritalin,

representing 85 percent of total Ritalin consumption in the entire world. The

Federal Government is doing ALL that it can to increase these numbers--remember

Bush's idea re: mental health screening for EVERYBODY?. Strange NAME for this

legisaltion " The New Freedom Initiative " . It is a plan to screen the entire

U.S. population for mental illness. This bumbling fool is trying to position

himself to judge your very thoughts.

Bush's Mental Illness Screening Squad On the Move

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00120.htm

What Teenscreen Doesn't Want You to Know about Parental Consent

 

 

 

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