With Limited Mental Health Staff, Waterbury Calls Police On School Children Under 12 Maria was having a hard time calming down at her elementary school in Waterbury. On a December day just before holiday break in 2018, she was hitting and kicking staff and knocking books off the bookcase. She had recently entered foster care, and this was her third behavioral episode in three weeks. So the school staff called 9-1-1, telling the dispatcher there was a “four-year-old female out of control.” With limited mental health staffing at their elementary schools, Waterbury educators regularly call the police when they can’t handle a child in crisis, according to a report released today by the ... Continue reading... https://www.wnpr.org/post/limited-m...terbury-calls-police-school-children-under-12
Even call the cops for an "out-of-control" 4-year-old girl! With limited mental health staff, Waterbury calls the police on school children under 12 Maria was having a hard time calming down at her elementary school in Waterbury. On a December day just before holiday break in 2018, she was hitting and kicking staff and knocking books off the bookcase. She had recently entered foster care, and this was her third behavioral episode in three weeks. So the school staff called 9-1-1, telling the dispatcher there was a “four-year-old female out of control.” With limited mental health staffing at their elementary schools, Waterbury educators regularly call the police when they can’t handle a child in crisis, according to a report released by the state’s ... Continue reading... https://www.rep-am.com/local/localn...calls-the-police-on-school-children-under-12/
With limited mental health staff, CT city calls the police on school children Maria was having a hard time calming down at her elementary school in Waterbury. On a December day just before holiday break in 2018, she was hitting and kicking staff and knocking books off the bookcase. She had recently entered foster care, and this was her third behavioral episode in three weeks. So the school staff called 9-1-1, telling the dispatcher there was a “four-year-old female out of control.” With limited mental health staffing at their elementary schools, Waterbury educators regularly call the police when they can’t handle a child in crisis, according to a report released today by the ... Continue reading... https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/ne...ental-health-staff-CT-city-calls-15530202.php
Waterbury public schools called police on children 200 times in six months, Connecticut’s child advocate says Waterbury’s pre-K through 8th grade schools called the police on children at least 198 times from Sept. 2018 to March 2019, the state Office of the Child Advocate found in a report released Tuesday. A total of 36 calls ended in police arresting a student, the report says, which typically meant that police handcuffed the child before bringing them to the police station. Nine of the children arrested were 11 years old or younger, the report says. “Use of law enforcement as a behavioral health first response system is problematic and does not increase the likelihood of a child and ... Continue reading... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/w...cut-e2-80-99s-child-advocate-says/ar-BB18AN2y
Waterbury Police regularly arrest school children for behavior problems Maria was having a hard time calming down at her elementary school in Waterbury. On a December day just before holiday break in 2018, she was hitting and kicking staff and knocking books off the bookcase. She had recently entered foster care, and this was her third behavioral episode in three weeks. So the school staff called 9-1-1, telling the dispatcher there was a “four-year-old female out of control.” With limited mental health staffing at their elementary schools, Waterbury educators regularly call the police when they can’t handle a child in crisis, according to a report released by the state’s ... Continue reading... https://www.rep-am.com/local/localn...arrest-school-children-for-behavior-problems/
