Uncovering the CDC's Mental Health Strategies for Schools - Episode 153

The agenda to push mental health into schools should be a top concern for all Americans, regardless of if you have children in school. 

Today we're taking a look at a recent social media campaign by the CDC to push for mental health strategies in school. 

One of the biggest issues with mental health care in schools is the circumventing of the parents. In many states, children over a certain age, usually around age thirteen, the children can get mental health care without parental consent. It's critical that parents are involved in the health care and the mental health care of their children. 

Parents have a right and a duty to be involved with the care of their children. The push for mental health care in the government education system is one of the biggest ways that the government is overstepping their bounds and circumventing parental rights. And in many states, many of these deep blue states, Washington, Maine, New York, they are actually making it so that parents don't even get notified about this. In Washington state, parents can't even get their child's mental health records.

So why is the government so intent on withholding mental health information from parents? Because they're doing something that they want to hide.

Go down the rabbit hole with these links: https://www.cdc.gov/abes/results/sexual-identity.html https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/mental-health/mental-health-numbers.html https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/mental-health-action-guide/index.html 

https://conservativeladiesofamerica.com/surgeon-general-advisory-youth-mental-health-crisis/

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Hi, I'm Julie Barrett. I'm the founder of Conservative Ladies of America and today I want to talk to you about something I stumbled upon on X yesterday, which happens to be one of my most important issues, one of my biggest priorities, and that's our children and the push for mental health in schools. I personally believe that our children should be top priority for all Americans, because their success, their academic achievement and their mental, physical, emotional health and well-being is critical to the health and the survival of America. I mean, they're going to be the future generation that's going to be leading this country, and so it's really important that we do them right and give them the best opportunity to succeed in life. And there is a huge agenda to push mental health into schools. You see it, with the, it's all part of the SEL CRT, the comprehensive sexuality education, the push for LGBTQ ideology in government, schools and so far beyond, and I kind of think of it as my analogy for policy and programs and things like that.

Speaker 1: 1:17

I think back to when I was a child and my grandparents had a home in the San Juan Islands in Washington State and I spent a lot of time beachcombing and one of my favorite things to do was to turn over the rocks, and there would always be all these little crabs and they would scurry when you picked up the rock, and the bigger the rock, the more crabs, the bigger crabs. I feel like that's how policy and programs are within our government system you overturn one thing and you find a whole bunch of other things. I kind of also describe it like a web. No one policy or program stands on its own. It's always connected to other policies and other programs. There's so much interwoven. So if you start going down these rabbit holes, you'll find yourself, you know, off in many different directions.

Speaker 1: 2:05

And so yesterday I saw this post that was shared by another user on X from the CDC's Division of Adolescence and School Health. I didn't even know they had an account for this, and so I really went down the rabbit hole because I saw this graphic right here, this six strategies for promoting mental health and wellbeing in schools, and it's such a pretty graphic and they're sharing this out to schools and teachers and administrators. And one thing I think we should all be aware of is teachers go to school to become teachers, not psychologists, not psychiatrists, they're not mental health professionals. They are teachers. So they're not qualified to be filling this role of teacher and mental health professional. That should always be top of mind. So on this graphic you can see the first strategy is to increase students' mental health literacy. You are probably getting familiar with the term literacy. It's being attached to all sorts of different things in education and beyond, and that's just all part of sort of this Marxist, communist, socialist movement that we have going on in education and our government systems and at a corporate level, of course too. Strategy number two is promote mindfulness. What does that mean level? Of course too. Strategy number two is promote mindfulness. What does that mean? They're? They're trying to teach students to become more connected to their feelings, to talk about their feelings.

Speaker 1: 3:33

You know, when we were kids if you're my age, I'm almost 50. And and when I was a kid you went to school and you didn't have to bring your problems into the classroom. You were just doing English or math or science or whatever it was you didn't have to talk to the teacher about. Maybe you know, your mom burnt your toast this morning or your your dad was yelling at your mom and they got into a fight before you went off to school and that kind of started your day off. Right, you didn't have to talk about that stuff. You just got distracted with school. You went about your day. You got there, you started talking to your friends and you forgot about what was going on at. So we need to be doing that for our kids. We don't need our kids to be dwelling on their problems. Of course, the things you think about they magnify, they grow, and so if we're teaching kids to meditate on the things that are wrong in their lives, they're going to get depressed, and this is part of why we have this mental health crisis with our youth in our country, our country.

Speaker 1: 4:27

Strategy number three is to promote social, emotional and behavioral learning. This SEL type of stuff is embedded into every part of education. There is no subject in school that does not have some element of SEL pushed into it. Now you may have some teachers and some more red States that don't have as much of it, but it is a nationwide thing. So, if you're thinking, well, I live in a red state, so this isn't happening in my state. I live in Florida, and when I moved here last summer July of 2023, the first thing I did was make a public comment at a school board meeting in July because they were adding mental health funding to the schools. They have this whole program in Florida called the resiliency toolkit, and it's just a different, better sounding name for social emotional learning, or SEL. So if you are in a red state, don't think that this doesn't apply to you, because it is happening everywhere, it is embedded in the systems everywhere and that's why you know this is a CDC level, this is a national level program here that I'm talking to you about today. So they want it to be in every state, in every system, and education has always been very left-leaning, and even more so today, and it's hijacked by the teachers union and what I refer to as the educational industrial complex.

Speaker 1: 5:46

So then, strategy number four is enhance connectedness among students, staff and families. That's also a little bit problematic. The school doesn't really need to be involved in your family. They just need to educate your kids with academics reading, writing and arithmetic. And then strategy number five provides psychosocial skills training and cognitive behavioral interventions. Again, these teachers are to be teaching academics. They're not mental health professionals, so we should stop making them be mental health professionals. Strategy number six support school staff wellbeing. I suppose this is more DEI training. Give them more days off. Who knows exactly what that looks like.

Speaker 1: 6:29

So I went through this graphic here, and then I went over to the website that this came from and I started dinking around, so let's take a look at some of the things that I found on the CDC's website. You're probably aware of the surveys that go on in schools, and it's a big thing that most of us feel is pretty invasive. It is really not the school's place to be collecting data on your child. We always encourage parents to opt their students out of this. Sometimes, though, what happens is the surveys are given to the students without any notification, and so the parents don't really know. Parents don't really know how to opt out. I'm going to put a link down below from Parents Defending Education. They have a really good tool for you to be able to opt out of this, and I recommend that all parents do this. If you didn't do it at the beginning of the school year, go ahead and do it, do it now. So the CDC is getting the data from these surveys that go out to the students, and one of the things that we know over the last several years is that we have this youth mental health crisis.

Speaker 1: 7:36

Well, you're pushing in this SEL CRT. You're teaching white kids that they're oppressors because of their skin color. You're teaching children that they are either a victim or an oppressor. That's depressing. I mean, no one wants to feel that way. You're teaching kids that they are based on their sexuality or their gender. They are more important or less important than other students. Now I have a huge problem with this whole push for sexuality in school, as maybe you do too. Sexuality in school, as maybe you do too.

Speaker 1: 8:09

I think that talking to kids about sexuality, making that normalized at a young age, is really bad, and there was a time when this was considered grooming behavior. I think the term groomer gets thrown around a lot right now because we do tend to call these people that are doing this to children we call them groomers. But this is back before this became commonplace. Grooming was what sexual predators did to children, and this kind of stuff that's going on in schools with this comprehensive sexuality education is the kind of thing that sexual predators would do to groom children that they were going to victimize. So one of the things that we're seeing with the rise in the mental health issues with students is how many kids nowadays are claiming to be LGBTQ and you see a lot of it as they're doing it because their peers are doing it or it's trendy using different pronouns, using pronouns that are totally fabricated and made up. It's something that's become kind of a social contagion.

Speaker 1: 9:19

So it's interesting that in the CDC's report here the depressive symptoms and suicidal thought by demographic characteristics you have. 65 percent of LGBTQ youth Right are having suicidal thoughts and depressed. Does that surprise you? They're being taught that if they don't feel comfortable in their body, maybe they were born in the wrong body, maybe something is wrong with them, maybe they're actually, maybe it's a boy and he's having a struggle with puberty and so maybe that means he's a girl. I mean, we're really messing with kids by teaching them this gender ideology.

Speaker 1: 9:57

Further goes on to suicidal thoughts and behaviors by demographic characteristics. The LGBTQ students were more likely than heterosexual students by 20%. 20% of LGBTQ students were likely to have suicidal thoughts and behaviors, to only 6% of the heterosexual students. That should be a huge, huge indicator that what we're doing, what they're doing, is not working. It's actually creating the problem. So what they're doing is they're creating a problem and then they want to create a solution, and the solution is we need to put mental health care in schools Now.

Speaker 1: 10:37

I have had a lot of experience in my family with mental health issues, with my children with mental health issues, and so I definitely believe that we need to be supporting persons and students who need mental health care. The problem is, the mental health care system has been hijacked by radical leftists and they have an agenda, and the agenda is to indoctrinate these students, and so it's not good to be pushing this into the schools. It's not good for it to be radicalized and hijacked by the left, and you see, in some States they have made laws for mental health providers where they have to be gender affirming. The other issue that we have with mental health care in schools is the circumventing of the parents, and in many states, children over a certain age usually it's about 13, the children can get mental health care without parental consent, and it's critical that parents are involved in the health care the mental health care of their children.

Speaker 1: 11:44

Parents have a right and a duty to be involved with the care of their children, and this is one of the biggest ways that the government is overstepping their bounds and circumventing parental rights, and in many states many of these deep blue states, washington, maine, new York. They are actually making it so that parents don't even get notified about this. In Washington state, parents can't even get their child's mental health records if their child does not sign a release of information. So why is the government withholding that information from parents? Because they're doing something that they want to hide. If you have nothing to hide, you hide nothing. So the government is hiding this information about children from their parents. The other piece of this is with the mental health care in schools comes funding for mental health care in schools and the school-based health care centers that are becoming very common. There's a lot more funding at a federal level to increase the school-based health centers, and this is just another way of making schools one-stop shopping, making your children property of the government rather than part of your family.

Speaker 1: 13:02

And parents have a duty to speak up, to play their role, you know, to take their designated place as the parent, as the authority, in the child's life, and one of the things I like to say about it is you know people will say well, the child isn't your property. Well, my child has a right to have me, their mother protect them, and your child does too, and we owe it to our children to fight for their right to the protection by their parents. So this is a huge issue. I'm going to have lots of links in the description for you. I would encourage you to explore those if you like to go down the rabbit hole, as I do.

Speaker 1: 13:49

But check out what's going on in your school district, find out. You can go to your school district's website and in the search box, just type mental health and see what's going on, or type in social, emotional learning or SEL, and see what you come up with. Find out what's going on and if there is something that you can speak about that at the school board meeting, please plan to make a public comment or or even just alerting other parents in your school district about what is going on. It's really important that we be in this fight for our kids, and maybe you are thinking well, I'm so glad my kids are grown and I don't have to deal with this. Well, maybe you have grandkids or, at the very least, you're a taxpayer and so you are funding this, and so you have a duty to speak up and make your voice heard If you don't want America's children being indoctrinated in this way.

Speaker 1: 14:36

And you know, like I said, I believe strongly that these types of programs are creating the mental health crisis and it is very financially lucrative to the players involved in this game to push this mental health stuff into the schools. There's so much funding in this and we as citizens, as parents, as grandparents, we are the ones that can say no. So please take a look at those links. If you appreciate this content, would you please subscribe and share this video? I would also encourage you to subscribe to our sub stack. That way you'll get the latest alerts and calls to action and, if you would like to support this content and our organization, I will also put a donate link in the description below. We are citizen activists and the only way that we can do this work is by the support of other concerned citizens like you. So thanks for watching, thanks for sharing, don't forget to like and subscribe, and I'll see you again next time.