Mental Health Solutions Alone Can't Thwart Gun Violence, Experts Say

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4. ~half of the new mental health care money in the proposed federal budget is for educating

teachers to the signs of mental illness in children supporting an attempt to stem gun violence.

There have been a couple of newspaper articles about increased spending for mental illness in Obama's budget,

It seems that the new budget will include about 130 million additional dollars directed for mental health related spending, of which about 60 million will go to the education of teachers about recognizing mental illness in school children.

There are about 6 million elementary and secondary school teachers in the US, so that effort represents an investment of about $10 per teacher. That's surely better than nothing.

But considering the concept is to make teachers the front line detectors of early mental illness in children that seems minimal.