We can fight for a healthcare system that provides comprehensive, high-quality, humane care for those with the most serious illnesses. We can end policies that require the relinquishment of custody as a means to a child's treatment. We can work to educate our healthcare and school professionals so that they truly understand serious mental illnesses and provide the kinds of services that are effective for children with these brain disorders. And we can all just say no to the parent-bashing stigma and prejudice that weigh down these families as they confront a horrible illness in their precious youth. As we struggle to make the lives of all our children better in the wake of unthinkable school violence, we must not forget our children who have serious mental illnesses and their families who love them.
Brain disorders can and do strike our most vulnerable members of society-our children.
But we know much about how to help these kids, these families. Surely, it is our obligation as a just society to do so. The course is taught by trained family members. All instruction and course materials are free for class participants.