A poll to help me figure out an approach

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This is not scientific. But you as a community seem articulate. This poll is about 18 yrs and less.

I had it pointed out this forum in this area can be read by nonmembers, so feel free to be generic in your response.

As I have become more involved by work, volunteering, friends, and now family with the treatment system for kids, I am disturbed.

So as a starting point, I want your stories of yourself or others if it's ok with them if you think it will help me understand or just thoughts on the proposals is OK. None to go beyond this forum. I will follow up with more formal action based on what I hear. This is only to guide me in an action plan. I can't address all the deficiencies, sorry.


My 3 areas of focus
1-police use with kids with behavioral problems
Any thoughts on how it affected you? On your kid? On others you read about? Do you have a better solution?
My thinking is if you have a situation outside school, for now police are only option as its uncontrolled, but maybe the mobile crisis team with a child specialist could come out once situation secured? Also they can come to a school as the first line rather than police as first line in a meltdown. Lets stop arresting 6 yr olds and tazing unarmed 11 yr olds.
Any thoughts on that proposal. It's open to modification. I've already morphed this as I look into this, budgets, stats.

2- inpatient treatment hospital or long term residential.
Why can parents stay for sick kids, but not in psych hospitals ? I know it's a logistical problem, but that can be solved. Many mental illnesses are due to biochemical imbalances, thoughts like suicide are often biochemical. So why can't mom stay with their sick kid?
Does that matter to anyone with a kid or who was hospitalized as a kid?

3- to those parents who think its all ok, please contact your school admin. find out if police are in the action plan and what trips a response with an unarmed kid. If its fuzzy and based on perceived threat, that means fear can trigger police on your kid. Think airlines. Think response out of proportion to problem. Which is why I think a non force crisis child specialist should show up.

Thanks
And I am specifically not using the poll feature. How a question is asked affects how it is answered. I want free form

AC, this forum is not protected, non-registered users can read it. You may want to ask a moderator to move the thread to members only.

Thanks. I will modify the question. This issue needs to be public. Any kid sexually abused can become a behavior problem. So everyone own's this. Kids often act out rather than talk so they get misdiagnosed.