Poverty and Children

Children’s Mental Health
There is no documentation that cans directly emphasis at children’s mental health in America. Documentation supports that the provision of children’s mental health services are required if these services are to become a recognized priority instead of an option. There should be some thing done in order to provide services for children, and a body should be made authority with the responsibility to bring together policy directions, service delivery and funding for children’s services. The major effects of cutbacks, lack of a coordinated plan, and the massive restructuring currently taking place in isolation could increase the existing problem, there should be some difference between the service sector and seriously impair the prospect of effective coordination for needed services for children.   The up bringing of a child is a response to a complex network of environmental, social and economic factors and a range of social supports. High quality education, health and mental health services, together with child welfare, provide the total safety net for children in our communities. (Bronfenbrenner & Ceci p. 568-586) If any one of the following fell short of their mark, it will have a significant impact on the effectiveness of the other systems. Children’s services must include provision for quality pre and post natal care, child care, education, adequate income, housing, parent supports and education, early intervention for those at risk and treatment for those with mental health problems.   The effect of low funding across the sectors is creating a truly alarming lack of support for children and families. Projects started by the government emphasis on the transfer of responsibility for services for children to local communities. There is a very real possibility that cuts in funding, downloading of programs to the community level and decreases in the tax base and resources will leave communities without any funds at all for services, such as... [continues]

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