New Lawsuit Accuses DCFS of ‘Warehousing’ Children in Psych Hospitals

Fifteen-year-old Skyler was placed inside Hartgrove Behavioral Health System, a psychiatric hospital on Chicago’s West Side, for what was supposed to be a three-month stay in November 2014. But three months came and went, and Skyler wasn’t allowed to leave the hospital.

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Illinois DCFS Sued Over Care of Mentally Ill Foster Children

A county public guardian in Illinois is suing the state's Department of Children and Family Services over what it contends is the "immense harm" the agency is doing to mentally ill foster children that are kept in psychiatric hospitals beyond their medical discharge dates.

The federal lawsuit that was filed by Cook County's public guardian after reports by the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois about the issue contends that repeated budget cuts for appropriate treatment facilities and foster care worsens the conditions of the children's lives and that keeping them so long at the psychiatric hospitals is "inhumane" and costs taxpayers more than $125,000 a month.

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Youth home ends psychiatric program after abuse revealed

Youth home ends psychiatric program after abuse revealed

Residential treatment agency Youth Villages has decided to close the psychiatric treatment program at one of its Oregon campuses. The Lake Oswego location was the subject of a longstanding DHS investigation, and state officials found inadequate staffing, repeated sexual contact between minor-aged residents, reports of a staffer hitting a child and inattentiveness to a suicidal child.

Dr. Sujatha Ramakrishna: Let's not monkey around with kids' brains

Dr. Sujatha Ramakrishna: Let's not monkey around with kids' brains

Researchers at UW-Madison are preparing to use maternal deprivation to create a primate model of adversity-induced anxious and depressive disorders in human children. Led by Ned Kalin, they hope to discover new therapies by dissecting and analyzing the brains of baby monkeys who have been intentionally traumatized.

Psychiatrists four times as likely as other Canadian doctors to be disciplined for sexual misconduct: study

Psychiatrists four times as likely as other Canadian doctors to be disciplined for sexual misconduct: study


Psychiatrists are twice as likely as other Canadian doctors to face professional discipline generally and almost four times as apt to be sanctioned for sexual misconduct, concludes a new study that underscores long-held concerns about the speciality.

Note: Schmack!

Teenager wrongly held in psychiatric ward for SIX months as doctors claimed she had eating disorder - but it was rare condition that made her vomit 15 times a day

Teenager wrongly held in psychiatric ward for SIX months as doctors claimed she had eating disorder - but it was rare condition that made her vomit 15 times a day

A teenager who used to vomit up to 15 times a day, spent six months on a psychiatric ward before her mother finally convinced doctors she had a physical condition, rather than a eating disorder.

Anonymous targets child abuse at Judge Rotenberg Educational Center Continue reading on Examiner.com Anonymous targets child abuse at Judge Rotenberg

Anonymous targets child abuse at Judge Rotenberg Educational Center

Anonymous hacktivists take aim at controversial special needs school for abusing and torturing children and young adults with cruel and inhumane methods, including dangerous and excruciatingly painful electric shock treatments, prolonged restraints and the withholding of food.

Restraint Linked To Deaths Could Soon Be Banned

Restraint Linked To Deaths Could Soon Be Banned

The Colorado State Board of Human Services is one step closer to changing policy that would eliminate the use of prone restraint at all facilities under the Colorado Department of Human Services.

'I have essentially been lying': Best-selling child abuse and split personality memoir Sybil exposed as a FAKE

'I have essentially been lying': Best-selling child abuse and split personality memoir Sybil exposed as a FAKE

It was a best selling 'true story' that planted the notion of repressed memory syndrome in the American consciousness.

Restraints still cause injuries in DCF psychiatric facilities

Restraints still cause injuries in DCF psychiatric facilities

Todd was agitated, and the effort of the staff at Riverview Hospital to calm him down weren't having any effect. As the confrontation escalated, aides did what they were trained to do: physically restrain him, face down against the floor, in hopes that would defuse the situation.

Lawmakers Consider Proposals Banning The Use Of Skin Shock Therapy

Lawmakers Consider Proposals Banning The Use Of Skin Shock Therapy

Later Tuesday state representatives will hear a proposal for a ban on so called ‘skin shock,’ or aversive therapy, for children attending the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton. The JRC is the only known school in the country that offers the skin shocks, which supporters say not only help developmentally disabled children lead normal lives but also keeps many of these children who injure themselves and others alive.

From Rebbecca

I was a cash cow for Doc's Caspa and Mental health , when i wanted to leave there care I was put under a CTO order and drugged to death, I had saved $1500 for a holiday with my best friend. Is this the sign of a mad person . I was murdered in 7/24 care by the names mentioned above. and it was LEGAL. I was almost 18. and my family have gone bankrupt to get an inquest. If you die under a government service provider you are just another statistic.

DEAD WRONG - How Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child

Psychiatric disorders are not medical diseases. There are no lab tests, brain scans, X-rays or chemical imbalance tests that can verify any mental disorder is a physical condition.

The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging and The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? comes this searing new documentary, exposing how devastating—and deadly—psychiatric drugs can be for children and families.

Behind the grim statistics of deaths, suicides, birth defects and serious adverse reactions is the human face of this global drugging epidemic—the personal stories of loss and courage of those who paid the real price.

Psychiatrists claim their drugs are safe for children?

Once you hear what eight brave mothers, their families, health experts, drug counselors and doctors have to say instead, you will come away convinced of one thing...

Psychiatrists are DEAD WRONG.

Couple complains to N.L. psychology board

Couple complains to N.L. psychology board

A western Newfoundland couple fighting to get their children back from foster care have complained to the province's psychology board about a psychologist who performed a parental assessment report on them for Child, Youth and Family Services.

The Amoral, Psychiatric--Pharmaceutical Victimization of Foster Children in the United States of America

The Amoral, Psychiatric--Pharmaceutical Victimization of Foster Children in the United States of America

Foster children are unfortunates without parents and families, not a medical population—not victims of a disease or epidemic. I would add here that increasingly, foster children are children “kidnapped” by government—by child protective services and family courts, their parents having had the audacity to resist the psychiatric labeling and drugging and having been charged with “medical neglect” for their audacity.

Big Pharma Maneuvers to Label Toddlers as Depressed—and Drug Them

Big Pharma Maneuvers to Label Toddlers as Depressed—and Drug Them

Once children are in the system, most become fodder for the Big Pharma machine for the rest of their miserable lives.

Teen who collapsed at residential treatment facility dies

Teen who collapsed at residential treatment facility dies

The state's foster care agency revealed Wednesday that a 17-year-old girl who collapsed about a month ago at a residential treatment facility has died.

Shock Therapy Used on Children with Autism

Shock Therapy Used on Children with Autism

The Judge Rotenberg Center, located outside of Boston, has been under the media’s fire since their methods of reprehension for students were revealed. The school uses aversives to correct the behavior of children who are acting out. What kind of aversives do they use? Skin shock treatment.

Youth lock-ups blasted

Youth lock-ups blasted

Just around the corner from the Eaton Centre, a psychiatric facility is locking up youngsters who don't belong in secure custody, provincial documents reveal.

In one case, a 15-year-old girl's “moderately eccentric interests” in origami and the study of bugs were cited by a psychiatrist at Youthdale Treatment Centre as examples of a possible mental disorder. Another teen's admission of having unprotected sex was taken as evidence of a suicide wish because such behaviour could lead to AIDS.

State Investigation of Whistleblower Lawsuit Supports Medicaid Fraud Allegations Against Madison Center

State Investigation of Whistleblower Lawsuit Supports Medicaid Fraud Allegations Against Madison Center

A recently completed investigation by the state of Indiana supports whistleblower allegations that Madison Center, a behavioral treatment organization in northern Indiana, for years actively sought troubled children to enroll in its programs to boost its Medicaid revenues but then failed to properly diagnose them and give them the treatment they needed.