Are Foster Children Psychiatric Guinea Pigs?

by CCHR Florida | May 27, 2015 | Children and Teens, Fraud, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

Medicaid coverage of foster kids has contributed to out of control psychotropic drugging of children as young as 12 months. Because “mental health” services are included in this coverage, there has been rampant abuse. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) in 2011...

How Are America’s Foster Children Being Treated?

by CCHR Florida | Dec 12, 2011 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders

The answer is, “not so well,” according to recent investigations. Apparently what happens is this: children are first taken out of abusive or neglectful homes and put into the foster care system, presumably to be given the chance at better lives. So far, so good. ...

Review of Psych Drugs on Foster Children will Save Millions of Dollars

by CCHR Florida | Feb 22, 2011 | Children and Teens

“House Bill 23 hits a rare political sweet spot. The proposal to create an independent clinic review of the drugs foster children are given has support from Democrats and Republicans because of its efforts to protect the vulnerable – and projections that...

Failing Florida’s Children, Foster Care & the Baker Act.

by CCHR Florida | Jan 25, 2021

Join an instructional webinar for child advocates regarding the foster care system and the Baker Act. About this Event Please join us as we discuss options of improvement for the overall system and neglected children’s rights. In the United States, 470,000...

More on Action Alert and News Update on the psychotropic drugging of Foster Care children:

by CCHR Florida | Nov 30, 2011 | Children and Teens, Disabled Persons, Fraud, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

“More than 8% of children in foster care have received antipsychotic medication, and just over one quarter of those in foster care who also receive disability benefits take these drugs, according to a recent studyin the journal Pediatrics… The numbers...

Action Alert and News Update on the psychotropic drugging of Foster Care children

by CCHR Florida | Nov 30, 2011 | Children and Teens, Mental Health Screening, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Drugs, Rights

In a letter to State Officials (across the U.S), written by three different divisions of Health and Human Services, it states: “Children in foster care represent only three percent of children covered by Medicaid,yet, based on a study of pharmacy claims in 16...

Regarding Florida Foster Care children, 2009

by CCHR Florida | Aug 12, 2009 | Children and Teens

Many of you may have been watching the Florida newspapers recently and seen the article that spoke about two parents who just adopted two children. They came forward on the day that Governor Crist was talking about adoption. The two parents were appalled at how many...

Foster Kids & the Baker Act

by CCHR Florida | Dec 30, 2022

Complimentary Seminar on the use of the Baker Act and medication management in the Florida Foster Care System. Join us for a complimentary Seminar. In Florida, there are currently about 19,000 children in foster care. The average age is 10. About 50% will not...

Foster Kids & the Baker Act

by CCHR Florida | Jun 27, 2022

Complimentary Webinar on the use of the Baker Act and medication management in the Florida Foster Care System. About this event Join us for a complimentary Zoom Webinar. In Florida, there are currently about 19,000 children in foster care. The...

Foster Kids and the Baker Act

by CCHR Florida | May 18, 2022

Complimentary Webinar on the use of the Baker Act and medication management in the Florida Foster Care System. About this event Join us for a complimentary Zoom Webinar. In Florida, there are currently about 19,000 children in foster care. The average age is...

Human Rights Expert: Why We Need a Foster Child Bill of Rights

by CCHR Florida | Feb 17, 2022 | Children and Teens, Foster Care, Legislation

Legislation Can Make a Positive Difference For a range of reasons still being explored, the foster care system suffers from mishandling. This problem can be solved mainly by providing more rights to both children and their caregivers, including the parents with whom,...

Florida’s Foster Kids & the Baker Act.

by CCHR Florida | May 7, 2021

Join an instructional webinar for child advocates on the foster care system and the Baker Act. About this event Please join us as we discuss options of improvement for the Foster Care System and how children’s rights are neglected. In the...

Florida’s Foster Kids & the Baker Act.

by CCHR Florida | Feb 28, 2021

Join an instructional webinar for child advocates regarding the foster care system and the Baker Act. About this Event Please join us as we discuss options of improvement for the overall system and neglected children’s rights. In the United States,...

Mental Health Watchdog Calling for Investigation into Psychiatric Drugging of Millions of Children

by CCHR Florida | Dec 21, 2017 | Children and Teens, Psychiatric Abuse, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) of Florida, a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to protection of children, is calling for an investigation into the heavy psychiatric drugging of children; especially foster children, in Florida. A report from...

Not a Joke: Electroconvulsive Therapy Recommended for Children

by CCHR Florida | Jun 23, 2015 | ECT

ECT is described by psychiatric whistleblower Peter Breggin as “a psychiatric treatment in which electricity is applied to the head and passed through the brain to produce a grand mal or major convulsion. The seizure brought about by the electric stimulus closely...