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40 Years of Research Suggests Assessments may Increase Risk of Suicide

40 Years of Research Suggests Assessments may Increase Risk of Suicide

by CCHR Florida | Nov 17, 2020 | Mental Health Screening, Suicide

As International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day approaches, the Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is questioning the reliance on suicide risk assessments. Observed on November 21st this year, International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day...
CCHR Hosts Continuing Education Course on the Florida Mental Health Law

CCHR Hosts Continuing Education Course on the Florida Mental Health Law

by CCHR Florida | Nov 9, 2020 | Baker Act, Continuing Education, Rights

The virtual course for mental health professionals is designed to help them identify the basic human rights impacted by the law and its unintended consequences. The mental health law in Florida, known as the Baker Act, allows for individuals of all ages, including...
CCHR Calls Attention to Drugging of Millions of Children on the Heels of ADHD Awareness Month

CCHR Calls Attention to Drugging of Millions of Children on the Heels of ADHD Awareness Month

by CCHR Florida | Nov 2, 2020 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs

There are over 6.7 million US children being prescribed psychiatric drugs with more than 3.3 million of these children prescribed drugs for ADHD. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated the protection of children,...
Mental Health Watchdog Offering Continuing Education Course on the Baker Act

Mental Health Watchdog Offering Continuing Education Course on the Baker Act

by CCHR Florida | Oct 27, 2020 | Baker Act, Continuing Education, Rights

The virtual course for mental health professionals will help them identify the basic human rights impacted by the Baker Act and its unintended consequences. The mental health law in Florida, known as the Baker Act, allows for individuals of all ages, including...
Profiting from Misery: National Depression and Mental Health Screening Month

Profiting from Misery: National Depression and Mental Health Screening Month

by CCHR Florida | Oct 19, 2020 | Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs

Mental health observances feed a $795 billion-dollar industry and are more about profit and less about helping those in need. Each year the month of October is touted as National Depression and Mental Health Screening Month with the stated purposed to “bring awareness...
Tens of Thousands of Children Sent for Involuntary Psychiatric Examination in Florida

Tens of Thousands of Children Sent for Involuntary Psychiatric Examination in Florida

by CCHR Florida | Oct 14, 2020 | Baker Act, Parental Rights, Rights

Each year on October 10th World Mental Health Day is observed for the stated purpose of raising awareness on mental health issues. This year the Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a watchdog organization, hosted a seminar on mental...
Reliance on Risk Assessments Questioned as Suicide Awareness Month Ends

Reliance on Risk Assessments Questioned as Suicide Awareness Month Ends

by CCHR Florida | Oct 7, 2020 | Mental Health Screening, Suicide

September is nationally recognized as Suicide Awareness Month and the stated intention of this campaign is to “inform and engage health professionals and the general public about suicide prevention and warning signs of suicide”. [1] Each year one solution offered up...
Watchdog CCHR to Host a Baker Act Rights Seminar for World Mental Health Day

Watchdog CCHR to Host a Baker Act Rights Seminar for World Mental Health Day

by CCHR Florida | Oct 7, 2020 | Baker Act, Parental Rights, Rights

During a meeting of the Children’s Baker Act Task Force, it was revealed that a significant number of children sent for an involuntary psychiatric examination did not meet the criteria to be taken into custody. Unfortunately, this is not new information. The mental...
Almost 410,000 Reached in a Campaign to Protect Children and Parental Rights

Almost 410,000 Reached in a Campaign to Protect Children and Parental Rights

by CCHR Florida | Sep 24, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Parental Rights

Viewed as a statewide problem, the number of children sent for involuntary psychiatric examinations, called a Baker Act, has been steadily climbing for almost two decades and with many parents only finding out their child has been taken into custody after the fact, it...
Mental Health Watchdog Applauds Call for Independent Enquiry into Electroconvulsive Therapy

Mental Health Watchdog Applauds Call for Independent Enquiry into Electroconvulsive Therapy

by CCHR Florida | Sep 15, 2020 | ECT, Legislation

According to a post published in Psychology Today by John Read, Ph.D., a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London, “forty experts (including researchers, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals” have written the Minister for Health...
Evidence Points to Misuse of the Baker Act with Devastating Results for Children

Evidence Points to Misuse of the Baker Act with Devastating Results for Children

by CCHR Florida | Sep 9, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Legislation, Parental Rights

As reported in multiple news stories, a recently released 85-page study found that “the Baker Act is increasingly being used on school children who make jokes, act out, exhibit normal manifestations of a known disability, or express ordinary sadness.” This same study...
Watchdog Calls into Question Reliance on Risk Assessments During Suicide Awareness Month

Watchdog Calls into Question Reliance on Risk Assessments During Suicide Awareness Month

by CCHR Florida | Sep 1, 2020 | Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide

Each year September is recognized as Suicide Awareness Month with September 6th through the 12th observed as National Suicide Prevention Week. The stated intention of these campaigns is to “inform and engage health professionals and the general public about suicide...
Watchdog Campaign to Restore Parental Rights Reaches Over 370,000

Watchdog Campaign to Restore Parental Rights Reaches Over 370,000

by CCHR Florida | Aug 25, 2020 | Baker Act, Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Parental Rights, Rights

Recognized across the state for helping parents whose children have been taken to a psychiatric facility for involuntary examination under Florida’s mental health law, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) launched a public information campaign earlier this...
Florida Psychiatrist Convicted of Disability Fraud and Tax Evasion

Florida Psychiatrist Convicted of Disability Fraud and Tax Evasion

by CCHR Florida | Aug 23, 2020 | Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse

Evaded Paying Taxes on Over $1.6 Million in Income Earned While Claiming to be Disabled Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs – Tuesday, April 30, 2019 “A South Florida doctor residing in Hobe Sound, Florida, was sentenced to 51 months in prison...
Florida Getting $3.7 Million Following a Multistate Health Care Investigation

Florida Getting $3.7 Million Following a Multistate Health Care Investigation

by CCHR Florida | Aug 22, 2020 | Fraud, Universal Health Services

By FLORIDA DAILY  – 07.24.20   “On Thursday, state Attorney General Ashley Moody announced that Florida will receive millions of dollars following a massive multi-state health care fraud investigation. Florida, along with 49 states, territories and...
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