When I am elected for office, there are three committees I will support throughout my term; 1 education, health and human services, and the public health committee. There are many reasons why I chose these three committees, but there is one thing specifically that ties all three things together and that is mental health. Education is important to me because we gain majority of the information we learn from elementary through high school. I have realized from personal experience that mental health is important for people to understand, and the only way to help make people more aware of mental disorders is to speak about it more in the education system. I believe that the …show more content…
The education system is failing at letting these kids recognize their own feelings. For example, I was being bullied in school and texted my mother to pick me up because it was becoming too much, so when they called me down to the office they scolded me for being on my phone (during lunch) and did nothing about the bullies. I did not have a counselor to talk to, and basically sat alone in an office for the remainder of the day while my bullies were having fun in gym, or art class. Does that sound like the proper way to handle a child’s feelings in school? At this point in time, I was unfamiliar with counseling and receiving help from anyone who was not family, but the older I got, the more I began to understand why some people grow up not wanting any help because something could have happened when they were younger and felt like they never had anybody to talk to because it was never something that was brought up in school. This is why I support the education committee to hopefully spread the word on mental illness and other diseases or disorders, and I support the health and human services committees because they provide help for children which is where the knowledge on health needs to begin. Finally, I support the public health committee because they are a devoted partner with …show more content…
I would also provide support for those who feel as if their children are being mistreated in any school or not being provided the care they need as a child. Of course, I would be open to any questions about who I am as a person, my lifestyle, I want my voters to feel as if we are family. I would be open to any interviews for newspapers, websites, social media accounts, you name it and I will give you any answer you desire as long as it is reasonable and