I'm not normally a politically "loud" person, but this bears retweeting.
URGENT CAPITOL ALERT!!
Bill Sending 12 Year Old Kids for Mental Health Services Without
Parental Permission is Resurrected!!!August 26, 2010
THS IS AN URGENT ALERT THAT NEEDS YOUR ACTION TODAY!!
The State Senate and Assembly are in a frantic rush to pass bills before the August 31st deadline. They are passing about 100 bills a day. Legislation is moving at a dramatically fast pace. This meansYOU MUST ACT WITHOUT DELAY. YOU CANNOT WASTE TIME!! THE FATE OF THIS BILL LIES WITH US!!
Please call today and send this email to those you know who care about the mental welfare of their child.
ANTI-PARENT BILL TO HARM KIDS IS RESURRECTED:After months of sitting silent on the Assembly inactive file (a place where bills are intended to die and not be brought up), some legislators pulled a fast maneuver to resurrect Senate Bill 543. It is now before the State Assembly for a final vote and can be voted on as early as today!!! This bill will strip all rights from parents knowing about what type of “mental services” their child receives while they are in school.
SENATE BILL 543: MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR STUDENTS
WITHOUT PARENTAL KNOWLEDGE!!SENATE BILL 543 IS AWAITING A FINAL VOTE BY THE STATE ASSEMBLY ANY MINUTE, ANY DAY!
Make no mistake…Senate Bill 543 is one of the most dangerous bills going through the Legislature. And the legislators behind it are trying to ram it through under the radar.SB 543 is a complete breach of parental authority, knowledge and consent. SB 543 would expand the definition of a “professional person” so that it would allow for a government worker, like a clinical social worker, psychiatrist, or therapist, to send a minor as young as 12 to get “outpatient mental health services.” In fact, a person doesn’t have to be a certified psychiatrist; they can merely be “eligible” to be certified and still send a 12 year old to get mental service or counseling. And this could be done without a parent even being contacted or knowing.Right now current law only allows for a minor to receive confidential mental health treatment and counseling or receive residential shelter services if they are deemed mature enough and if they only pose a danger to themselves or others or are victims of incest or child abuse. SB 543 undermines these provisions! Under SB 543 a child can request these services for any reason, they don’t have to be a victim of abuse or pose a threat. Section 124260 (H)(b) of the bill states:Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a minor who is 12 years of age or older may consent to mental health treatment or counseling services if, in the opinion of the attending professional person, the minor is mature enough to participate intelligently in the mental health treatment or counseling services. This provision of the bill is clearly designed to give the sole discretion about a child’s maturity not to the parent, but to a state sanctioned social worker, therapist or psychiatrist.Leno and his bill’s supporters will claim that SB 543 will require that parent’s be involved in a child’s treatment or services. But they have even created a loophole to undermine that as well. Here is what Section (c) states: Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the mental health treatment or counseling of a minor authorized by this section shall include involvement of the minor's parent or guardian, unless the professional person who is treating or counseling the minor, after consulting with the minor, determines that the involvement would be inappropriate.All a social worker, therapist or psychiatrist has to do is ask a child if they want mommy and daddy to know. If the child says no they can take it upon themselves to make sure a parent is never contacted!!! This bill would apply to any instance a child that is between the ages of 12-17 is either under the watch of a social worker, a county agency, in foster care and even while they are in school.Schools today have health clinics and nurses that have repeatedly gone around the authority of parents and given teens and children abortion counseling services, condoms, contraceptives, and even pro-homosexual counseling. This bill is designed to do one thing: Create yet another avenue for therapists and psychiatrists to plant seeds of doubt in the minds young formable minds. This bill is about undermining parental authority and challenging the views parents instill in their children in the home!!
WE MUST STOP SB 543!! WE MUST STOP THE FURTHER ATTACK ON PARENTAL RIGHTS!!VOTE CAN HAPPEN AS EARLY AS 10AM ON AUGUST 26th
IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED TO STOP SB 543!!
OR ANY TIME AFTER1. Call Your State Assembly Member Today!!
Ask them to VOTE NO on SB 543!!
2. CONTACT THE FOLLOWING KEY DEMOCRATS!!
THEY CAN CONTROL THE FATE OF SB 543!!
Ask them to VOTE NO on SB 543!! Vote Can Happen Today or Any Day After!!
For State Assembly Member’s Websites, to find local contact numbers, faxes and emails please go to: http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset7text.htm
To find your State Assembly Member directly go to this link and then enter your zip code:http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.htmlPaid for by Lydia Gutierrez for State Superintendent of Public Instruction #1318691
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