-Caveat Lector- forwarded... Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart -----Original Message----- From: Steven Wallace, Sr. Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Mental Health Bills and School Clinics This deserves national attention -- all states, all parents ....... Subj: Fwd: Mental Health Bills and School Clinics Date: 9/7/99 11:54:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pat Rylance) This is mainly for Californians, but this state is a forerunner for all other states. Know what might be coming your way if state authorities get their way. It's time to start pulling kids out of schools and homeschooling them. Their are several good websites for homeschooling that parents can turn to if they have to and they get credit for schooling just as if they were in school. Pay attention folks ....... they are taking more and more rights away from us. This has to STOP!!!!!!!! Pat ++++++++++++++++++++++ Subj: Mental Health Bills and School Clinics Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:08:59 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.webpub.com/~capitol/health_.html http://www.webpub.com/~capitol/health_.html California Mental Health Bills that you and your family should know about! Status: AB 88 - Senate Appropriations Hearing Scheduled 9-1-99 AB 1363 - Senate Floor AB 920 - Assembly Appropriations (Will not be heard till next year) SB 468 - Assembly Appropriations Stop AB 1363 (School Health Centers) BACKGROUND: AB 1363 will further drive a wedge of suspicion, anger, and hostility between parents and the public school system as it tramples parental rights. It will set churches at odds with government for offering condoms, contraceptives and abortions to minors. It will set taxpayers against a gubernatorial administration that is spending billions of tax dollars on education while condoning a program that will erode classroom time, school space, and local control. Assemblywoman Susan Davis (D - San Diego), the bill author, was an outspoken proponent of school based clinics in the San Diego School District while she was on the school board there. AB 1363, School Health Centers, would vastly expand both scope and number of school based clinics throughout the state. AB 1363, requires the Healthy Families program to consider school health centers as traditional safety net providers and establishes their facility requirements. While touted as health care for poor uninsured children, Healthy Families insurance coverage would be given to families with incomes up to 250% federal poverty level. That’s about $41,000 for a family of four. Advocates are pushing Governor Gray Davis to raise this to 300%, and to bring adult family members into the program. This is an attempt at large scale expansion of government managed health care. To do this, AB 1363 proposes major revisions to the public school system which are unsound, uncorrectable, and unwarranted. Here are seven reasons to reject AB 1363: 1. Education Is Adversely Affected - AB 1363 stipulates that “a school health center shall operate each day” and that “to the maximum extent possible, permits scheduled appointments that do not unnecessarily interrupt the student’s classroom time.” Although the intent is to minimize classroom interruption, the SHC main hours of operation will be during the time their targeted clientele are in school. When the Governor has given highest priority to improving academic achievement and holding students to higher standards, why institute a program that is going to decrease the amount of time children will spend in the classroom? 2. Parental Rights Are Abrogated - By law, government provided health care must include full reproductive services from contraceptives to chemical and/or surgical abortions with associated confidentiality free of parental involvement. Sending your child to a school that has a school health center is like sending your child to a Planned Parenthood clinic. School based clinics have called students in for unsolicited “counseling”. Parental notification or consent would also be denied for psychological testing, drug counseling and even for pelvic exams of 11 year old girls as happened in East Stroudsburg, PA. 3. Immorality Is Fostered - A School Health Center (SHC) puts great pressure on young girls to become sexually active by offering contraceptives and abortion referrals while using a school campus setting to give promiscuity a false “respectability”. Abstinence-only curricula is the only proven means of reducing teenage pregnancies. 4. Local Control Is Lost - School Health Centers bypass the local school board and electorate. SHC personnel would be responsible to the provider groups funding them and to government agency regulations. Accountability to school boards, parents and taxpayers would be lost. It is not clear that even routine FBI background checks would be made on unlicensed SHC applicants as is currently required for employment in a school position requiring contact with minor pupils. 5. Federal Laws Are Possibly Violated - A recent federal court case in Texas (3 May 1999) found invasive questionnaires to be in violation of the federal Pupil Protection Act of 1978. AB 1363 calls for extensive data collection on students’ personal medical histories and service utilization. Records would be available for inter-agency use, but not available to parents or school board officials in certain instances of confidentiality. Parents have a legal right to shield their children from invasive questionnaires, and from psychological and physical exams. This bill will likely lead to lawsuits as in Texas. 6. Certain Medical and Mental Health Practices Are Inappropriate - School based clinics specifically started out as contraceptive clinics. Norplant has been used in existing California SBCs without parental consent, without having been tested on teenage girls, and despite 36 class action suits in 20 states being brought against it’s manufacturers and distributors for adverse side effects. Will similar problems arise when mental health care is extended to public schools? Will psychiatrists perform the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders or will this be done at lower levels? The improper prescription of medications such as psychotropic drugs can have disastrous results. 7. Taxpayer Costs Are Unwarranted - Companion bill AB 920 is now in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. That bill would specifically fund this program at an estimated $35,000,000 for start-up and services in at least 200 comprehensive health centers statewide over the next 6 years. If at some future date the state stops funding, will the local school district have to pay the continuing SHC administrative costs? Where will the medical facilities be housed? Classroom space in many schools is at a premium with recent class-size reduction. Will AB 1363 require new construction? AB 1363 also proposes a major expansion of mental health diagnosis and treatment. With this comes an associated health cost escalation for the California taxpayer since block grants limit what the federal government can provide. Are SHCs really needed when primary health care services already exist off school grounds? TAKE ACTION: Write and/or call your State Senator today. For the list of Senate members and their contact information There are 2 bills that seek expanded insurance coverage for mental disorders and 2 additional bills which call for a mental health clinic to be placed in every school. Under these bills school personnel would diagnose children as mentally ill and then have authority to drug them without parent’s permission. SB 468 (Polanco) This bill would mandate that all health plans and disability insurance plans cover everything in the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel, fourth Edition) as if they were physical illnesses. Many of the “syndromes” covered under DSM-IV are without medical basis and are unscientifically proven.(SB 468 is sponsored by the California Psychological Association.) AB 88 (Thomson) This bill would mandate that about 8 “serious mental illnesses” such as bipolar disorder, autism, panic disorder, and “seriously emotionally disturbed children” must be covered by any health or disability plan. This bill is supported by various pharmaceutical companies, such as Novartis (the maker of Ritalin) and by psychomental health groups. Each of the two above bills would fund involuntary commitment and involuntary drugging. These bills are unnecessary as many legitimate mental disabilities mentioned in DSM-IV are already covered under insurance. AB 1363 (Davis) This bill would establish a comprehensive health clinic, complete with mental health services in every school in the state. AB 920 (Cardenas) Outlines the state funding for the school clinics. Additionally, also uses MediCal (state and federal tax dollars). These bills taken together could easily give therapists and psychiatrists full discretion to select children, label them with a disorder and prescribe mind-altering medication. A consequence might be that normal children, who happen to be overly active will no longer be allowed to be at school unless they are medicated. Under these bills the diagnosis and medication can be done against the will of the child and without parents consent. The school system already has a mandated list of symptoms that every teacher is encouraged to look for. They are taken from the DSM-IV, put out by the American Psychological Association. For every child they can label the school gets double funding from the federal government. 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