Rick Kagan. NAMI KS. Goals are peer support, education, and advocacy. 1 in 10 children live with a serious mental health illness. People go years or decades without accessing help. Restoring funding to mental health centers and targeting early intervention. #SMHAD@kasponline
Dr. Jeff Colyer, Lt. Governor for Kansas addresses participants in School Mental Health Awareness Day at the Capitol. Mental health professionals are on the front line. Dreams are universal, no matter where you’re from. #SMHAD@kasponline@512Psychs
Building social-emotional skills doesn’t occur through exclusionary practices. Building social emotional learning has to occur in the natural environment for ALL students. #smhad. @thesmsd@512psychs@kasponline
KSDE panel for School Mental Health Awareness Day. Thank you Kent Reed, Myron Melton, and Colleen Riley for taking time out of your busy schedules to meet with us today. @kasponline#smhad
Kyle Carlin on the importance of advocacy. We all have an opportunity to succeed but we aren’t all at the same startling point. School Psychs can provide advocacy for our students, giving them that step up to the starting point. @kasponline @the SMSD @512Psychs