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Sep 23, 2009, 09:33 AM
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Member Since: Jul 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Posts: 2,779
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Thank you to each of you for your kind words. I talked to my son and gave him the link that you supplied, Rainbowzz. He was grateful. I'm not sure where it will go from here. I will need to talk to him later and find out more information about what the school is doing. I think that the hardest part of it for me is not only that it is another senseless death from mental illness but that it is a senseless death of a child, a child who no one listened to. But as Trying and Caring pointed out, maybe he didn't really talk to anyone about it. But I don't understand how a parent can be so removed from their child. I guess we don't know the situation.
I am becoming involved with doing some volunteer presenting for the National Alliance on Mental Illness. One of the programs they do is sending teams of four people into the public schools to train teachers and counselors to recognize the symptoms of mental illness in children. I have a degree in education. The person I interviewed with seemed to think I might be suitable for that program. Perhaps that would be the place for me.
Thank you to each of you for your support. It means a lot to me. 
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 Vickie
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