From 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on October 14, Julie Anderson, and Kelsey McNeill of Solvista Health will host a virtual forum for Salida School parents focused on student mental health. Recent events in the community and the stress of the ongoing COIVD-19 pandemic, have brought some challenging conversations to the forefront.
Local support services including Solvista, have been receiving a lot of requests from parents about how to talk to their children about mental health crises, and suicide. While the teen years can come with their own angst, dealing with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on life, school, and students’ athletic and social lives has been disruptive.
This forum will discuss how to have these difficult conversations. There is not just one right way but many guidelines that can help ease the process, which will be highlighted during this event. The forum will be held via Zoom. All Salida parents who believe they could benefit from the conversation are encouraged to attend.
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I hope that the law enforcement over-reaction is also addressed as it adds to the problem and can cause a weapon to be available when there was not one until it was produced by police. When you see that in our society and in our area many police officers are believers in Q Anon it makes one question their judgment and discrimination in general. This causes more fear to the person in distress escalating a situation that can otherwise be handled peacefully. The law often impedes swift and proper actions by those involved. Communication is mandatory and discrimination can not be tolerated in our law enforcement agencies. Discrimination always causes judgment problems on both ends of the problem. A person’s justified fear of police will not go away until their confidence in fairness is restored which means a change in law enforcement response.