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Behavioral Issues

Today's parents are scared about how to keep their kids who have behavior challenges in school. Do you have questions or a need referrals for professional services to address alcohol, drugs, juvenile justice system, suspensions, alternative placement or truancy issues?Criminal Neglect: Substance Abuse, Juvenile Justice and The Children Left Behind The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University This is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of substance abuse and the state juvenile justice systems. This report finds the four of every five children and teens (78.4%) in juvenile justice systems are under the influence of alcohol or drugs while committing their crimes, test positive for drugs, are arrested for committing an alcohol or drug offense, admit having substance abuse problems or share some combination of these characteristics. Of the 2.4 million arrests in 2000, 1.9 were substance involved yet only about 68,600 juveniles receive any form of substance abuse treatment. Up to 75% of incarcerated juveniles have a mental health problem and up to 80% have learning disabilities, yet they rarely receive help for these problems either. This report calls for a top to bottom overhaul in the way the nation treats juvenile offenders, including creation of a model juvenile justice code, training of all juvenile justice system staff, diversion of juveniles from deeper involvement in juvenile justice systems, and treatment, health care, education, job training and spiritually based programs and services.

Not long ago, it was thought that many brain disorders such as anxiety disorders, depression, and bipolar disorder began only after childhood. We now know they can begin in early childhood. An estimated 1 in 10 children and adolescents in the United States suffers from mental illness severe enough to cause some level of impairment. Fewer than one in five of these ill children receives treatment. Perhaps the most studied, diagnosed, and treated childhood-onset mental disorder is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but even with this disorder there is a need for further research in very young children.

Has your child or teenager been cited for truancy, excessive tardies, suspensions, referred to alternative school, alcohol or drug related issues or involved in the juvenile justice system?

Emotional Disturbance as a Disabling Condition
http://ednews.org/articles/27696/1/Emotional-Disturbance-as-a-Disabling-Condition/Page1.html

Bullying Prevention
http://ednews.org/articles/27755/1/Bullying-Prevention/Page1.html

Child and Adolescent Mental Health
http://ednews.org/articles/27756/1/Child-and-Adolescent-Mental-Health/Page1.html

Drugs and/or alcohol
http://ednews.org/articles/27698/1/Drugs---Alcohol/Page1.html

Oppositional Defiant Disorder
http://ednews.org/articles/27747/1/Oppositional-Defiant-Disorder/Page1.html

Managing Anxiety in Times of Crisis
http://ednews.org/articles/27750/1/Managing-Anxiety-in-Times-of-Crisis/Page1.html

SEVERE CHILDHOOD ADHD MAY PREDICT ALCOHOL, SUBSTANCE USE PROBLEMS IN TEEN YEARS

Bipolar Disorder

§300.527 Protections for children not yet eligible for special education and related services. (a) General. A child who has not been determined to be eligible for special education and related services under this part and who has engaged in behavior that violated any rule or code of conduct of the local educational agency, including any behavior described in §§300.520 or 300.521, may assert any of the protections provided for in this part if the LEA had knowledge (as determined in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section) that the child was a child with a disability before the behavior that precipitated the disciplinary action occurred.

LDAdvocates.com will help implement a pro-action plan as a preventive measure as well as a intervention program addressing future escalation of these school-related issues.*Alternative placement *Drugs/alcohol *Expulsion *Juvenile Justice system *Suspension (in school/alternative placement) *Terrorist threat *TruancyWe provide professional and expert support along your attorney, mental health professional or councilor.

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