A Wish List For At Risk Children
Subsidized day care (tens not thousands of families on state’s waiting list); more mental health services (consistent and better control and use of psychotropic medications)
BA degree, mental health training & higher wages for day care workers; more training, smaller caseloads, & greater resources for social workers and school counsellors
removing law enforcement from the front lines of dealing with mentally unhealthy people & eliminating jails and prisons as housing for mentally unstable people
fail safe programs ending child death by caregiver; more and better training and resources for handling child abuse in rural MN; End child suicide
interrupt generational child abuse; expand programs for children aging out of foster care; stop courts from trying children as adults
create support, training, and alternatives for adoption and foster families; expand kinship searches & support;
encourage media to report on the state of mental health and child protection in your community
make ACEs & trauma informed policies the rule not the exception; stop child trafficking;
reduce psychotropic medication use by young children and children in child protection;
involve the community in the safety and well-being of all children;
through adequate access to mental health services);
End child abuse and mental health stigmatizing
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