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AWARE: Mental Health Training to Help Students

From OPSI (not just for teachers and other professionals): Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education) Increases awareness of mental health issues among school-aged youth, including training in mental health for school personnel, families and community members. Project AWARE purpose, goals, approaches, interventions and outcomes:

What Do We Tell the KIds?

We have a national tragedy...again. That's one thing you can always count on in this country because we have made a decision about what part we want guns to play in our lives. I personally don't believe that the Second Amendment covers guns for everyone (that word "militia" just doesn't seem like a citizen-in-the-home kind of word) but this is what our Supreme Court has said and it's the law of the land. That said, I do believe that gun owners should be held very responsible for anything that happens using the gun in their home by anyone who lives in the home. I also don't believe anyone but a law enforcement officer needs a 30-bullet magazine. What's fascinating is that the sale of Glocks has now gone up with rabid people fearing the government will cut off their guns. Funny how people worry about losing guns but not losing more people. From the AP: One-day sales of handguns in Arizona jumped 60 percent on Jan. 10 compared with the correspondi...