We Have Come for Your Kids - CA State Legislature Using "Mental Health" Ruse to Extend Control Over Children

We Have Come for Your Kids - CA State Legislature Using "Mental Health" Ruse to Extend Control Over Children


By CAMILLE GIGLIO

August 16, 2010 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The California health care and Education elite doesn’t think so. Senator Mark Leno’s current Assembly Bill 543, Minors; Mental Health, may be the capstone completing the 2004 California Mental Health Act - Proposition 63. This bill is the latest try in over 20 years of attempted legislation at the state and federal level to gain unfettered access to your child under the guise of preventive mental health counseling.

This bill authorizes your child, age 12-17, to voluntarily submit to mental health counseling on a drop-in, tax paid, basis, by deleting the current requirement of parental consent or knowledge.

The following is taken directly from the bill:


“ In 2004, California voters passed Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which provides increased funding, personnel, and other resources to support county mental health programs and monitor progress toward statewide goals for children, adolescent youth, adults, and families. The MHSA imposed a one percent income tax on personal income in excess of $1 million. Community stakeholders groups consisting of consumers, families, and service organizations have met to identify barriers to consumer populations not only for MHSA programs, but for all mental health services. This bill seeks to address the identified barrier of parental consent for youth seeking mental health services.”
SB 543 states, further, that the mental health counselors and their stakeholders believe that you, the parents, “are the greatest barrier to a child’s mental wellness.” This is very reminiscent of the bills and a book authored by former legislator, John Vasconcellos, while in the legislature and afterwards, stating his belief that parents and religion cause most of the mental health problems for students.

SB 543 has passed the Senate and Assembly committees and is waiting for final action on the Assembly floor before being sent to the Governor. It needs to be vetoed.

Beginning in the 1980’s, due to a state Supreme Court decision issued by Governor Jerry Brown’s appointee, Rose Bird, Parents now have no say over sex education, dispensing of contraceptives to minor students on campus or in off-site clinics, treatment for venereal disease, abortions and approved dismissals from school to obtain reproductive services without parental knowledge or consent.

In other intervention tactics, the state continues to promote authorization of immunizations to students without parental knowledge or consent. Last term’s emotional debate over injecting 12-17 year olds with Gardasil is on-going. One bill, AB 1937, Nathan Fletcher, (R) entitled Pupil Health: Immunizations, is seeking to expand authority to an extended group of medical personnel to deliver immunizations in the school environment, and, include the California Academy of Family Physicians in an advisory capacity. the Ca. Academy of Family Physicians are promoters of Gardasil injections for all teens.

Leno also has a bill, SB 1317, that would allow parental abuse type charges to be filed against parents whose child is a consistent truant. Sen. Darrell Steinberg has a companion bill, SB 1357, that would require that specific information on student school attendance, i.e. truancy rates, be filed with the state on a quarterly basis.

If parents are declared unfit or they are actually put in jail, the child gets sent to a foster home and is then, automatically a candidate for mental health counseling because he has been uprooted from his home.

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