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nist — that relationship is going to be relied upon in terms of (mental health) screening. It’s going to be automatic to talk to (patients) about how they’re feeling, doing some screening — actual depression screening. The concept is, how can primary care be the ones that really start this conversation and actually begin treatment, if necessary. Some people are more comfortable doing that than taking that walk down to psychiatry or behavioral health. Barbara Spreng: I think there needs to be a huge, communitywide commitment to taking a really hard look and having the courage to take some risks and make changes — fundamental, holistic, systemic changes — in the way we deliver education around here. This community as a whole, whether we’re talking about the city or school district —how much real creativity, innovation, risk-taking has either one of those institutions been willing to take in the last 15 or 20 years? Right across the street at Stanford, Denise Clark Pope has done groundbreaking research into the whole issue of student stress, and Palo Alto is one of the last and slowest to adopt any of that. It seems to me a tragedy that we’re not embracing that more. Here’s one really simple thing. The state of California has K-12 education standards in a bunch of different subject areas. They actually have K-12 standards in physical and social-emotional health. Who would Commitment To Excellence
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know? Because they don’t get tested. There are comprehensive standards, but they leave it up to the school district how to meet them. Becky Beacom: There’s a move afloat in Palo Alto — and I think it’s going to be really interesting to watch — driven by the faith community, to amplify the voices of what they believe are the majority of parents who really support socialemotional approaches in schools. There may be a perception by the leadership that there’s more support for the current system than for a lot of attention to social emotional well-being, so we need the community to really be clear about what it values. Some parents may assume that it’s happening. Structure means something. Whether you start your year off with Challenge Day — that’s a structure that’s created that allows things to be revealed. It says something. Hopefully some of the measures that have been taken in the past year will catch people earlier, whether it’s in primary care, reaching out to parents, making ACS more familiar and accessible. So hopefully people won’t hit that bottom and will get help earlier. N A full transcript of this panel discussion has been posted at www.PaloAltoOnline.com.
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