Mental health issues in children are often misunderstood, or missed completely! The Calgary Herald is running a terrific series on mental health issues and kids, and we will be sharing it with you. Read, think and share your comments here.
Huge gaps in mental health care for Canada's kids
CALGARY — The breaking point came in 2009 when — after she threatened her family with violence and set a fire in her school — two burly police officers bundled Shyana Popplestone, then 11, into an ambulance that whisked the troubled girl to the emergency department of Alberta Children's Hospital.
That's where mom Jacqueline Popplestone desperately told a psychiatric nurse: "Either she gets admitted or I get admitted . . . Something has to be done. Something's not right. I'm tired of her being pushed around and her falling through the cracks and people not following up."
Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/health/Huge+gaps+mental+health+care+Canada+kids/5512818/story.html#ixzz1a6fF25lJ
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