Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, May 9th

Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day is coming up May 9, 2013 and this is a time to focus exclusively on the issues that plague our children today. Issues that dominate the media are also of importance such as:

• poverty
• homelessness
• gun control laws
• bullying prevention and development of consequences
• preventing mass violence
• providing resources for kids within the educational system to receive mental health services
• better services for children with autism spectrum disorders
• insurance-related concerns
• juvenile delinquency and criminalizing the mentally ill
• understanding the adolescent brain and its inability to make mature decisions

To listen to the ENUF (Ending Negativity to Unite Families) series on bullying, go to my sister-site at Caregivers, Family, & Friends

Spread the word about Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, we’ve already taken way too long to do so.

All the best