Speak Out!

Your Story

A place for YOU to speak out on issues related to caring for children’s mental health. Families, providers, and policy makers are invited to submit your views and experiences. 

1. Typed comments should be 1500 words or less.
2. Address positive strengths based recommendations, events, programs and insights on how to care for and improve children’s and adolescents mental health;
3. Or, concerns about barriers to good mental health for children and their families. 

PA Children’s News will select submissions based on their relevancy to current hot topics and evidence based practice.
Please submit your Speak-Out! article to: speakout@pachildrensnews.org. 

Stories:

• Retribution And Bullying By School District Administration And Staff Should Not Be Tolerated
• Autistic Teens with Behavioral Problems
• Must Students Earn a Seat in Regular Education Classroom? (Pat Amos)
• Advocacy in Lehigh County
• 'Normal' Shouldn't Be Only Acceptable Realm (Sarah Smith Nessel)
• Healing Traumatized Children (Faye Hall, MA)
• Safety (Kaylene Scholl)
• Partnership Leads to Book for Children (Pamela B. Mari)