Her discharge plan from Clarity included special instructions for when her 9-year-old is in school. Her 9-year-old’s diagnosis is a now major depressive disorder and severe unspecified anxiety. Now she’s a total opposite person and we’re trying so hard to get her back to how she was and it’s just not happening," said Bennett. She could brighten up the room just with her walking into the room. "Prior to that she was a very happy bubbly little girl. However, for parents like Erika Bennett, the process of getting their children help can seem almost impossible. "To handcuff them or use force is going to traumatize especially a kid," said Sgt Vasquez. SAPD's Mental Health Unit deals with thousands of children with mental health issues and the last thing they want to do is make things worse. To handcuff them or use force is going to traumatize especially a kid, even further," said Sgt Vasquez, with SAPD's Mental Health Unit. “An emergency detention allows a police officer to take somebody in custody without a warrant when they believe that an individual has a serious mental illness and because of that mental illness, they are in danger to themselves danger to others. Kids as young as 7 yrs-old being emergency detained. These images are being seen around the country. In some cases, children are handcuffed, some in tears, others just scared. No mother would ever expect to hear their child say that they don’t want to live anymore and to say that they want to end their life and they have a plan at nine years old," said Erika Bennett, mother of a student under the 504 plan. "It started in third grade, she was bullied pretty bad to the point where she became suicidal. SAN ANTONIO - Fox San Antonio first uncovered thousands of kids being emergency detained by school and local police, but what do parents do for their kids after they've been evaluated and return to school? What we found is a state program that some say is difficult to enroll children into but necessary for all children to learn in a safe environment.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |