Curtailing School Violence: National Mental Health Experts Outline What Teachers Need To Know

A fourteen year-old walks into a public school with two guns, kills two teens and injuries a pair of teachers before killing himself. How many times will we hear this story before we focus our nation’s resources on improving our public schools? What do our teachers need to know and be able to do when challenged by student mental health? A recent summit of mental health and education experts at the National Association of Health Education Centers (NAHEC) in Milwaukee revealed some answers. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Mental Health on October 20th, 2007