Mental Health & School Shootings
The solutions:
End the Stigma - through education, inclusion and the encouragement of academic critical thinking and the development of empathy and perspective-taking K-12. End the stigma of suffering from mental health.
Intervention - Encourage public schools to employ more mental health associates by extending contracts to mental health service providers, whom work with students and their families.
Medicaid / Medical Insurance Reform- Increase the funds for mental health services for individuals and their families on Medicaid.
Pharmaceutical Reform - Break up pharmaceutical monopolies and penalize companies that raise prices of certain medications beyond sustainability. Criminalize abusers of social welfare with stiffer fines and permanent ban from services.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness has a well written proposal on how to address the serious problems with our mental health system. The ideas featured above were partially inspired by NAMI.
