Florida District Providing Mental Health Screening Training To Teachers

The Miami Herald (1/28, Smiley) reports that Florida's Miami-Dade school system is training hundreds of teachers and other school personnel "to spot symptoms of mental illness among teenagers in an effort to help prevent the kind of schoolhouse massacre that occurred last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Starting in March, the school district will begin training each of its middle school and high school teachers to identify early-warning signs of mental illness through a program called 'Typical or Troubled?'"