by CCHR Florida | Nov 21, 2021
National Parental Involvement Day is celebrated annually to provide an opportunity for families to honor and highlight the powerful contributions parents and caregivers provide at school and home to support student success.
by CCHR Florida | Oct 16, 2021
Complimentary Webinar on the Florida Mental Health Law, the Baker Act. Hear from a Legal expert. About this event Join us for a complimentary Zoom Webinar. The Baker Act in Florida allows a child, an adult or an elder to be involuntarily sent for a psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | May 29, 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...
by CCHR Florida | May 15, 2021
Free webinar and conversation with Dr. Ben Miraglia to explain a physiological cause to child “ADHD” symptoms. About this event While childhood Sleep Disordered Breathing is underdiagnosed, the awareness of it is growing. The manner in which a child grows...
by CCHR Florida | May 12, 2021
Free Webinar on the Florida Mental Health Law, the Baker Act. Hear from a law expert. (3 CE Credits) About this event Join us for a complimentary Zoom Webinar. The Baker Act in Florida allows a child, an adult or an elder to be involuntarily sent for a psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Apr 17, 2021
Free Webinar on the Florida Mental Health Law, the Baker Act. Hear from a law expert. (3 CE Credits) About this Event Join us for a complimentary Zoom Webinar. The Baker Act in Florida allows a child, an adult or an elder to be involuntarily sent for a psychiatric...
by CCHR Florida | Mar 6, 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,...
by CCHR Florida | Jan 30, 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...
by CCHR Florida | Sep 10, 2012 | Alternatives, Children and Teens, Psychiatric Disorders, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide
Nicky Baker, Songwriter and international vocalist, performs her new song, “Just a Boy”! Many families are unaware that the mental health diagnoses of depression, ADHD, and the-like, have no medical test to evidence that they exist. Let’s help educate families...
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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...
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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...
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by CCHR Florida | Nov 28, 2011 | Children and Teens
There is more work to be done to safeguard Florida’s vulnerable children! CCHR Florida cares about Florida’s foster care children and their right to say “no” to psychiatric drugging. Too many tragic consequences have occurred in our state,...
by CCHR Florida | Aug 13, 2009 | Children and Teens
Florida’s mental health system for foster kids relies far too often on drugs, with little oversight, according to a draft report on the suicide of 7-year-old Gabriel Myers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1183698.html BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER...
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...
by CCHR Florida | Jul 7, 2009 | Children and Teens
Florida Times Union More parents, courts approve medication; some fear they aren’t informed decisions. By Brandon Larrabee Story updated at 12:24 PM on Monday, Jul. 6, 2009 TALLAHASSEE – As a task force examining the use of psychiatric drugs by foster...
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