Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act – H.R.3717
A letter that I wrote to our Representative in Congress ============== As a parent of a child with severe mental illness, a child who has been in crisis many times, I would like to voice my opinion in regards to this Act and why I would like to recommend that Representative Cramer not co-sponsor the bill. Briefly. We adopted our son David, when he was 18 months old. He was a special needs adoption not because of his birth history, but because of his ethnic background. As David grew older, little things began to come out. Staying awake for 2 and 3 days, destroying property, attacking teachers and family members. Poisoning family pets. For 9 years we did every kind of community based therapy that we could access. We utilized our states Protection and Advocacy Project to work with our school to allow David to continue to attend public school