Parents battle DCFS for help with troubled children

Sue Antolik and Tristan Toohill have never met, but for the past several years they have been engaged in a common battle with the state’s child welfare agency over the care of children who became dangerously violent after they were adopted.

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ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE CONNECTED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE

Gov. Pat McCrory’s Mental Health and Substance Use Task Force approaches foster care and adoption services as a key element, Co-Chair of the task force and Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS), Rick Brajer said.

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Program helps keep mentally ill youth out of jail

A simple suggestion helped save Donetta Foxx’s son.

Foxx spent the first 13 years of her adopted son’s life cycling between the silos of school, hospitals and the juvenile justice system to get help for the boy’s unidentified mental illness.

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Are Traumatized Students Disabled? A Debate Straight Outta Compton

Are Traumatized Students Disabled? A Debate Straight Outta Compton

The defendants may be one southern California school district and its top officials, but an unprecedented, class action lawsuit could have a big impact on schools across the country.

'We can keep her': Disabled mom wins daughter back after legal battle

'We can keep her': Disabled mom wins daughter back after legal battle

Sara Gordon, a pseudonym for the now 21-year-old mother, had been told by Massachusetts child welfare officials in 2012 that she was unable to care for her daughter because of her disability. While still in the hospital, according to official records, Gordon had missed a night feeding because she couldn’t read the clock and she failed to burp the baby properly.

Children in mental health crisis face being locked up by police

Children in mental health crisis face being locked up by police

Parts of the country have no places of safety to assess vulnerable children suffering from a mental health crisis, forcing them to be locked in prison cells or police vans for hours at a time.

Student with schizophrenia must have son adopted

Student with schizophrenia must have son adopted

A student with a history of severe mental illness has been told by a family court judge that her toddler son must be adopted.

Future anxiety among orphans can be decreased by professional help

Future anxiety among orphans can be decreased by professional help

For those who are raised in state-run institutions for the care of orphans, the possibility for future anxiety is among the biggest issues. When they set out on their own after turning 18, most of the orphans face great challenges until they manage to stand on their own feet.

Stanislaus County to strengthen mental health services for foster youths

Stanislaus County to strengthen mental health services for foster youths

To comply with a landmark court settlement, Stanislaus County will bolster mental health and support services for foster children who struggle with emotional problems.

A federal class-action lawsuit in 2002 charged that Los Angeles County had failed to provide mental health treatment for foster youths or children at risk of foster care placement. Group homes and a notorious county center were filled with mentally ill and abused children, resulting in frequent lawsuits and demands for reform.

Note: Only 12 years later.  Interesting.

Connecticut child advocates want independent review of girls’ detention unit

Connecticut child advocates want independent review of girls’ detention unit

A preliminary review by the Office of the Child Advocate of conditions at the state’s controversial locked treatment program for troubled girls in Middletown raises concerns about improper use of restraints, inadequate access to mental health services, and inconsistent reporting of abuse and neglect.

More than half of British parents with disabled children admit to taking antidepressants

More than half of British parents with disabled children admit to taking antidepressants

The findings of a major new study by the charity Scope have shown the impact that a lack of support has on families of disabled children.

A survey of more than 1,500 parents, found that that almost half (47 per cent) have visited their GP due to anxiety, with 57 per cent being described antidepressants.

80 per cent said they felt frustrated, stressed and exhausted, admitting to ‘bottling up’ emotions through guilt, or fear of being judged.

Note: All of those wonderful things that will get one of those scary British Social Worker's up your ass.  It's one of the old, "Oh we can give him services if we get custody," kind of things I guess.

Rep. Tim Murphy Introduces Mental-Health Legislation

Rep. Tim Murphy Introduces Mental-Health Legislation

Rep. Tim Murphy (R., Pa.), the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, introduced a wide-ranging mental health care bill that would change the way mental illness is treated.

Seizure of baby from mother's womb is 'stuff of nightmares'

Congratulations to the British Social Workers who made this happen.  You have officially been entered into the all time most horrid thing ever done by a CPS Agent contest.  I've often said that the British Baby-Stealer was the worst in the world.  I think this about proves it.

Seizure of baby from mother's womb is 'stuff of nightmares'

The case of a woman whose baby daughter was forcibly removed from her womb by UK social services was described by human-rights groups as "the stuff of nightmares".

This next link is a different perspective.  That of the system suck or something.

Child taken from womb by social services: it's not always wrong 

We must not get distracted by vilifying the Court of Protection when children’s rights are at stake. The system needs to be respected and supported, argues solicitor-advocate Sophie Khan

Here are a few more links to this story.

• CHILD TAKEN FROM WOMB BY SOCIAL SERVICES
• HORROR: British authorities abduct child from womb via C-section
• Child taken from womb by social services
• Social Services Forcibly Takes Child from Mother’s Womb in ‘Unprecedented’ Child Custody Case
• Please don't take my baby: Agony of mother whose baby girl was put up for adoption after secret court judge forced her to have a caesarean

I think it's safe to say, that after going on 7 years of Legally Kidnapped, this story pretty much takes the cake.  

Newtown shooting prompts calls for mental health reform

Newtown shooting prompts calls for mental health reform

Advocates say the USA's mental health care system is broken. They're calling for more funding and new legislation to help protect both patients and the public.

Desperate parents surrender autistic children to state custody

Desperate parents surrender autistic children to state custody


Families who can’t afford mental health care, behavioral therapy, other services for their autistic kids are giving them up to the state.

Study shows more disabled kids sent out-of-state

Study shows more disabled kids sent out-of-state

An advocacy group for people with disabilities is calling on North Carolina officials to better care for children who have both a mental illness and developmental disability, hundreds of whom have been sent to live in facilities outside the state because of a lack of adequate resources closer to home.

Settlement orders better mental health care for foster kids

Settlement orders better mental health care for foster kids

After a nine-year court battle, a landmark class-action settlement was preliminarily approved this week that would require the state to provide more effective mental health services for the children in or about to enter foster care.

How To Brainwash A Nation

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This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps.

Please join the campaign to end this insanity at The Kick Them All Out Project http://www.KickThemAllOut.com

Couple Says Adoption Lawyer Failed to Warn of Son's Medical Problems

Couple Says Adoption Lawyer Failed to Warn of Son's Medical Problems

Parents say they would never have adopted their son had they known of neurological issues

A New York couple is suing their adoption lawyers, claiming they failed to warn them about their adopted son's serious medical problems. Lynell and Victor Jeffrey say they would never have adopted Ellington had they known of his “serious neurological deficits.”

Mental Health report: children being put in adult units

Mental Health report: children being put in adult units

A REPORT COMMISSIONED BY THE Mental Health Commission has found that children as young as 13 have been sent to adult mental health units due to the lack of out of hours care services.