TeenScreen Keeps its Locations Secret

Some may wonder just why the TeenScreen program keeps its locations a secret from parents. Maybe because they don't want the parents to know when and where their children will be screened. Also, it may be that the directors don't want the public to get hip to their schemes.

According to TeenScreen's director, Leslie McGuire, TeenScreen is fearful there will be an uprising against mental health screening (quite correctly), therefore TeenScreen refuses to divulge their locations. At any rate, see what one of the directors of the TeenScreen program once said:

"We generally don't divulge that information. Some sites want to share where they are and they want to connect people but generally we don't make that list public and that's so that they don't get swamped with lots of questions from people — you know — instead of coming to us where this is our job and we're paid to do that and it's also so they don't get targeted by some of these anti-screening groups."

Listen to her statement here: Leslie McGuire Speaks

Is there really a need for mental health screening?

Some would say that there is a dire need to screen America's teens for mental illness, but when all aspects of the issue are examined, there are more risks than benefits. For the sake of the argument, the TeenScreen program has been widely proclaimed as a breakthrough method of tracking down mental illness before it gets out of hand. But what is it really? As discussed in previous articles on this site, the TeenScreen project is nothing more than a scheme by the pharmaceutical companies to cash in on America's hardworking families.

The tests are given by computers, not humans specializing in mental health, and there is a false positive rate of well over 90%! When a child receives a false positive result, he or she is labeled as "Mentally Ill" and are immediately put onto psychiatric drugs like Zoloft, Paxil, Xanax, and more. These drugs are known to produce suicidal and homicidal side effects! The program boasts its ability to identify suicidal teens. We would have to agree, if their way of "identifying" suicidal teens is by CREATING suicidal teens. Because that's all they really do.

So, is there a need for mental health screening in schools? Possibly in the RAREST of occasions, but not in any usual school.

TeenScreen: A Menacing Presence

Citizens in the United States need to know that the first target population for this forced massive screening for "mental illness" are America's children and pregnant women. This initiative has already been in operation since July 2003 in 168 of America's schools under the auspice of the "TeenScreen®" program, developed by Columbia University physicians (under leadership of David Shaffer M.D, spokesman of Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals), [the same group that has been designated by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to review the studies on SSRI-antidepressants inducing self-harm & suicide in children].

Fifty two million American school children and six million school personnel are ordered to undergo screening tests for hidden mental illnesses (as if mental illness needs to be ferreted out and captured like a rabid animal). This is not science fiction... this is harsh reality and it is happening now!

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No Justice for Nikki

Nikki was a vibrant 16 year old high school sophomore. Nikki had her whole life ahead of her. Her parents had planned to send her to one of the best colleges in their state. But Nikki never made it to college. In fact, Nikki never made it to the end of her sophomore year. Soon after being diagnosed as mentally ill, Nikki was prescribed several anti-psychotic drugs to help "heal" her perceived mental illness. And just as quickly, the light in Nikki's eyes started to dwindle, the innocence in her face turned gloomy. Five months after Nikki started on the medicine prescribed by doctors after taking the TeenScreen survey. Nikki was dead. A victim of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. In her suicide note she said: "I never thought I was crazy, but the doctors said I was. The medicine they gave me made my head hurt and I began to hear voices telling me to kill myself and spare my parents the pain of having a crazy daughter. Mom, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to turn out crazy. Maybe you and dad can have a better child. One better than me..." With those words, Nikki ended her life.

Another victim of TeenScreen

School Shootings Map

This map shows school shootings all over the United States within a 10 year period of 1996-2006. The Columbine High School shootings and the Padukah, Kentucky shootings are including in this map. Mind you, it is almost 2010 and several other school shootings have taken place since then. The most shocking fact that alot of these shootings were drug induced and the children were on mind altering adult psychiatric drugs! We are in no way trying to excuse the violent acts, we are just trying to show you the REAL culprits behind all of this school shooting violence. The Bush imposed Teen Screen program and the pharmaceutical drug companies that fund them

Politicians Under Obama Fighting to STOP Teen Screen

Kent Snyder, Executive Director of Ron Paul's grassroots organization, exposes the President's "No Child Left Un-drugged" program, offered under names such as "Teen Screen" and TMAP. These programs force or coerce children and adults into "mental health" testing which is highly unscientific and too often results in prescriptions for dangerous psychiatric drugs. These are of a class known as 'psychotropic' drugs-meaning 'mind-altering' drugs. We must keep our children from being given drugs and labels--it's time to stop any type of forced psychiatric testing and drugging of our children.

This program discusses the "New Freedom Mental Health Commission" and how this scheme started under Governor George W. Bush in Texas and continued in his presidency and to the present. The scheme to drug the creativity and initiative out of America's schoolchildren continues under Obama. Don't let your children have their energy, creativity and enthusiasm for life drugged out of them so they become dull and docile robots, doing only as they are told.

Drug Induced Shootings?

These poor kids are put on psychotic drugs and are induced into a violent state of mind. Teen Screen and it false positive results cause all of this. Watch and Learn...

Teen Screen Survey Questions - An inside look

Some parents by now are wondering exactly what kind of questions will be on the survey issued by Teen Screen. Thanks to a trustworthy source, we've acquired just that! Parents, we appeal to you, DO NOT ALLOW YOUR CHILDREN TO TAKE THE TEEN SCREEN SURVEY.

Why? What could be the harm? You may ask. Did you know that over 84% of the results are false positives? That means that those 84% and more students are PERMANENTLY labeled as a mental health risk, and their psychological profiles will be labeled as such. Think about this: Your child takes the TEEN SCREEN survey and receives a "positive", but in fact it is a "false positive" result. You both are then subject to an onslaught of suggested tests and medications by the "professionals" who issued the survey. If you and your child survive that, later in life he or she will be branded as a quack, not able to get work with any reputable company that checks psychological profiles. You see unlike criminal records, psychological profiles stay open...

The harm? This program has been proven to have alterior motives. That is to push the psychiatric drugs from the pharmaceutical companies down the throats of unsuspecting kids. Your child can be one on them. So before you make any haste to allow your child to take the program's survey, review the questions below. Later, make a self examination of you as a parent and see if you could ask those same questions to your child. Its better when a parent ask these questions in the privacy of your own home as opposed to a group of strangers psychologically raping our children.

List of questions on a Teen Screen survey that may be asked:

• Has there been a time when nothing is fun for you and you weren't interested in anything?
• Has there been a time when you felt you couldn't do anything right and that you were not a as handsome or pretty as the rest of the students?
• How often do your parents get annoyed or upset with you because of the way you are feeling?
• Have you ever felt nervous when you had to do things in front of people?
• Have you often worried alot before playing a sport or activity?
• Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year?
• Are you still thinking about killing yourself?
• Have you thought seriously about killing yourself?
• Have you often thought about killing yourself?
• Have you ever tried to kill yourself?
• and many more like these...

The Teen Screen program uses questions like these to label our children. How many of us parents would pass this test? The fact is, all of us, no matter who you may be have had some negative thoughts, BUT that in no way makes us out to be a mental case. Think seriously before allowing this government program to test your child. We as parents should be assessing our children for this problem, not the Teen Screen program.

Passive Consent

Many of you may not realize this, but the Teen Screen Program uses the very sneaky tactic called the Passive Consent Form to lure students into doing the so called "mental health survey". What exactly is Passive Consent Form? It is a form that the Teen Screen program gives the school to send home with the students. If the students do not return the form within the required time allotted by Teen Screen, the program will consider the parents' failure to sign AS consent!

The Passive Consent form has been utilized as a tactic to perform the tests on the children without the parents consent. As with all sneaky program forms that are worded the right way, the passive consent form relies on the parents not reading this form correctly. Most of the time, parents are required TO return forms as consent, but this form requires parents to return forms to OPT OUT of the program's analysis.

Note to all parents when you receive a form from your child's school. Read carefully!

The Face behind TeenScreen

Teen Screen was developed by psychiatrist Dr. David Shaffer. Dr. Shaffer is one of the best in his field, and he is the developer of the program, yet he cannot back the Teen Screen program 100%. Why? Because this governmental funded program is full of inconsistencies, and even its founder knows this. Case in point, here are two quotes from a few years ago by the good doctor himself.
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Dr. David Shaffer is not only the developer of the TeenScreen Program, but also a spokesman for the manufacturer of Prozac, and is also a paid consultant for 3 pharmaeutical companies, most notable GlaxoSmithKline.

Dr. David Shaffer on False Positive Results
Shaffer says that Teen Screen "does identify a whole bunch of kids who aren't really suicidal, so you get a lot of false-positives. And that means if you're running a large program at a school, you're going to cripple the program because you're going to have too many kids you have to do something about."

When asked how he talks to people who express concern over False-Positives being prescribed medicine, he says: "I think that standing by itself that criticism is meaningless because we don't know what harm the antidepressants do, if any, and we don't know who they do harm to".

Shocking BBC Radio Broadcast on TeenScreen

Some may wonder if all the major school shootings could have been prevented. It is alarming that many of them could have been prevented! If we look back on the school shootings that made headlines in America and abroad, it's scary to admit that all of the children were on some kind of medication utilized by the FDA. For instance, the Columbine High School shooters were both on antidepressants. Eric Harris, one of the shooters, was on the strong medication Zoloft and then later Luvox at the time of the killings. The other killer, Dylan Klebold was on Zoloft and Paxil - two very strong adult medications!

Take a moment to listen to these alarming statements by the BBC radio. (8:23)

Teen Screen: A Very Scarey Fairy Tale

There's a lot of controversey out there about TeenScreen. Last month, Anne Dunev wrote a great piece on The Huffington Post, called "Who Needs the Brothers Grimm When We Have Teen Screen?"

It's a quick read, but it's scarey, and definitely not the kind of fairy tale you want to come true. But it is coming true, with Teen Screen and the rest of George Bush's 2002 "mental health initiative". The New Freedom Comission on Mental Health has as its mission to "test" all American kids for "mental illness". It starts with kids, but if you read more about the New Freedom Comission on Mental Health, you'll see that the real goas is to get EVERYONE tested. And to get everyone diagnosed. Because the pharmaceutical companies have a pill for whatever might ail you.

We need to STOP TEEN SCREEN. Teen Screen is a "foot in the door" for the drug companies. They see the "screening" as a way to get American teenagers hooked on pharmaceutical feel-good medication. Anne Dunev explains in the comments to her article that parents are not told that the "treatment" is ALWAYS drugs, if their child's answer's to the 10 minute questionairre indicate that treatment is necessary. In fact, parents all over country are saying NO to having their child tested.

Read Dunev's Huffington Post piece.