LIHUE — As part of Children’s Mental Health Day on Kauai and nationally, a keiki mental health day gathering was held near the Historic County Building Thursday afternoon.
Six nonprofit individuals, four county employees, four state employees, and special guest Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami, stopped by.
Some of the employees held signs along Rice Street in the perfect weather, expressing their support for local child mental health service available on Kauai to the traffic that buzzed steadily by.
Kawakami brought a proclamation declaring May 9 as “Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day in the County of Kauai” and presented it to Kauai Family Guidance Center Chief Madeleine Hiraga-Nuccio. The Child &Adolescent Mental Health Division is a state-run agency with a local office.
Hiraga-Nuccio added that some of the common problems that are facing area youth deal with depression, anxiety, and attention deficit disorder.
She was there to show her support for children’s mental health and to inform the public that there are local treatments and options available to combat this problem that is estimated to affect one in five children.
Hiraga-Nuccio was joined by her colleague and clinical psychologist Punani Hee, who also works at the Kauai Family Guidance Center and treats local youth afflicted with mental health issues.
She pointed out that anyone who may be afflicted with children’s mental health issues can reach the Kauai Family Guidance Center at 274-3883 or by visiting the location, 3059 Umi Street, Room A014 in Lihue.
Hiraga-Nuccio said the event is an annual occurrence meant to raise awareness for children’s mental health and the services that are available.
The guidance center is part of the statewide Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division of the State of Hawaii, Department of Health.
“We do assessments, give them treatment through various agencies and work with the schools, psychologists and get them medication if they need it, just work with the families,” Secretary for the Kauai Family Guidance Center, Lucinda Mederios, said of the services the center provides.
Mederios added that one of the problems on Kauai is the lack of licensed doctors.
“They’re the that prescribe the medication, so what we have done is partnered with the University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine,” Mederios said. “We have doctors that fly over and do a clinic and we also let them intern in our clinic for fellowships and the residents come for a month to see if it is something that they would be into.”
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Ryan Collins, county reporter, can be reached at 245-0424 or rcollins@thegardenisland.com.
Aloha Kakou,
Let’s get one thing perfectly clear: there is no child who has mental issues or sickness or disease or symptoms and who has those conditions because they do not have enough drugs/medicines. Sickness is not caused or perpetuated by a LACK OF chemcial medications. BUT THE OPPOSITE IS TOO OFTEN TRUE…
Sickness is too often caused by and perpetuated by chemicals and medications.
For optimal health there is no such reality as there being a drug deficiency for any individual.
Any TREATMENT is after the fact, and in no way is the testing for, or providing treatment, a prevention.
Prevention is achieved by finding the CAUSE as any illness is an EFFECT.
Cause and effect…ever heard of that.
The wasted billions, and over the years $Trillions of dollars wastedly spent on more and more drug treatments and their research, has served only to keep the doctors in business and big homes, and their handlers, the drug companies, in embarrassingly massive incomes…seeking to put every man, woman, and now child under one drug treatment or another every day of their life. Are you one of those people already. Probably…!
Statistics show 80% of Americans use at least 1 drug per day falsely thinking it is for their health (HELLth) Care. And 55% take 4 medications per day, daily because drug 2, 3, and 4 are counteracting the side effects of the one before it. That’s how you spell INSANITY.
The cause of too many childhood illnesses, from mental issues to cancer, the drug Big Pharmacy industry and the hospitals and doctors are ignoring investing in the uncovering of the causes of those diseases because clearly it will eliminate the need for their services…and job. And why would Big Pharm give up a good thing.
And many drugs are made out of oil (from oil wells) and coal (from coal mines) and are called petrochemicals, which are themselves cancer causing. And they call themselves doctors…? How embarrassing…!
But why are they afraid of finding the CAUSES of Disease…and then remove or avoid the Cause of Diseases, then there is no need for treatments, no drugs, no pharmacy, no doctors…not a perfect society, but better than the one we got.
We avoid ARSENIC, it’s a known poison…why not the too many other chemicals.
Say, don’t we deserve better as a society wanting to replace Suffering with Happiness. It’s only natural. Good people have been saying this for hundreds of years…and here today a segment of our society that we Trust, makes enormous profits off keeping sickness going.
And UN-natural appears to be part of the Cause of too many Diseases…that is UN-Natural chemicals…in your drugs, medicines, food, cosmetics, clothing.
You see what is UN-natural is the drugs themselves, and the common 1 thing that all sick people do and that is they eat food…UN-natural food. Food cut with, diluted with, filled with, and added more weight to…you guessed it…more chemicals.
It’s been said by many: READ THE LABELS on your food. Most of those words you can’t pronounce on the food labels are nasty chemicals.
Chemicals that are foreign to our bodies. Chemicals that have only been on earth and man made for only less than 200 years. Chemistry discovered how to mix and match the chemicals in oil and other items that make up the chemical Causes of Disease, the very chemicals, same but different, that are in your prescription and over the counter medications…or for example in your breads…Thiamine Mononitrate, which is Vitamin B6 made from petrochemicals…bad petroleum oil. Say, you don’t think they’d be using used oil would ya…? Nah, there’d be a law about that…!
Kids today are saturated with chemicals. It’s not too far to go, to appreciate that if Heroin and Cocaine are clearly bad drugs…but they are plant based, they are made from natural God Given plants.
But so is SUGAR, and it is a drug chemically removed from plants and for some strange reason it is put in almost every food at the Supermarket. Why do they do that? Sugar in every food…are we a nation of sissies…?
READ THE LABELS…!
Sugar is known to cause or accelerate internal inflammations, even of the brain, and we wonder about kids mental health, while we feed them sugar in every bite of food they take. It’s criminal to dose our kids with sugar and then research a petrochemical drug to try and counter it, knowing all the while that every drug has negative and harmful side effects to our health.
When it comes to food and drugs: Stupid is as Stupid does.
And they have a Food and Drug Administration that hasn’t figured anything out, of any real value, yet. Look how many Americans are on pharmaceutical drugs…a weak nation internally. 80%…? That’s bad…ask your doctor what he/she can do for you without a drug prescription. Doctors go to school, for how many years, to give you a piece of paper with a drug written on it. Computers can do that faster and more comprehensive than doctors, and it can be done at home and Amazon can deliver the drug in 24 hours…cheaper…! Goodbye doctors…they should have been paying attention.
We are an internally weak, sick, nation…and we cannot protect our Health with missiles.
Go NATURAL…It’s reliable…!
Mahalo,
Charles
Yes its terrible. The state of U.S. health is just awful. Because our ” health care” is all about making money off the pain & suffering of millions. Thanks for knowing the truth & telling it. Few. Few indeed get that knowledge even in the fields of. ” natural health”. It is well obscured by all the profiteers. God bless.