TeenScreen: Benevolent or Malevolent? (Good or Bad?)
Mental Health Screening of School Children The Aug. 30, 2011 article in The Wall Street Journal, “Will Students Take A Mental Health Test”, covers the seemingly benevolent issue of whether Florida and other state schools should engage in mental health screening. ...Is Suicide Prevention Helpful or Harmful?
The idea of suicide prevention is a good thing as no one wants a fellow human being to take their life instead of getting the help they need. However, what prevention techniques are available that actually work? Hope Witsell, an eighth-grade student in Ruskin,...
40 Years of Research Suggests Assessments may Increase Risk of 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...
Reliance on Risk Assessments Questioned as Suicide Awareness Month Ends
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 Calls into Question Reliance on Risk Assessments During Suicide Awareness Month
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
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...
Over 260,000 Reached in Campaign to Educate Parents on Their Rights
Earlier this year the Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) launched a social media campaign designed to provide summaries of some of the legal concepts, rights, and facts relating to certain important student and parental rights. “We began...
Reliance on Suicide Risk Assessments May Increase Suicide Deaths
Due to COVID-19, mental health advocates are predicting that “suicide is likely to become a more pressing concern as the pandemic spreads and has longer-term effects on the general population, the economy, and vulnerable groups”. One solution being offered up is...
The Unworkability of Suicide Risk Assessments
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death in young people in the US today and suicide risk assessment is often touted as the answer but experts in the field have repeatedly concluded that there is not any one scale that can predict who will commit suicide to any...
Parental Rights
Introduction On July 1, 2021, Florida’s Parents’ Bill of Rights became law. As a parent, you need to know and understand these rights. CCHR has created a series of 15-30 second videos to help explain some of these rights as well as a simple booklet that...
CCHR Helps New Mexico Legislature Prevent Drugging of School Kids
April 7th, 2015 was a landmark day for parents and school kids in the state of New Mexico. On that day Governor Susana Martinez signed into law The Child Medication Safety Act. The new law strikes at the heart of psychiatric drugging of school children. SECTION 1 of...Children and Families
Children typically are raised within their family setting. This has been true for centuries yet it is changing without notice.Upon analysis of all the mental health programs, within the state of Florida, and some outside of Florida, a pattern of intervention between...
Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is an international nonprofit mental health watchdog with chapters the world over. Co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Thomas Szasz at a time when patients were being...
Baker Act Is Harmful Not Helpful
The Baker Act is the name of the mental health law in Florida and it covers all aspects of mental health including involuntary examination and commitment. This is the law that is initiated to send a person against their will for involuntary examination at a...Contact CCHR Florida
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