<p>Good point FLADAD and bessie. I just read a good editorial by Mira Signer in this morning’s Richmond Times Dispatch newspaper. She is the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Virginia. She states that Virginia ranks 39th in the country in spending on community based mental health care. While she commends Gov. Kaine and the members of the General Assembly for recently allocating 42 million dollars for the local mental health services boards, it is going to take years to overcome “decades of neglect”. </p>
<p>All colleges, college town police departments, and local mental health departments are going to need to take time to figure out how to best help their mentally fragile students. I worry about this generation of kids. They have seen so much violence, whether it be in their video game playing, TV, movies, etc. Their stress levels at this age certainly surpass their parents’.</p>
<p>Dialogue for reform is important, finger pointing and criticism serves no purpose.</p>