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Advocates File Suit Saying D.C. Is Failing To Help Kids With Serious Mental Health Needs - WAMU - FM

August 15, 2018

A number of disability advocacy organizations, along with the law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel, have filed suit against the District of Columbia for what they say is a failure to adequately address the needs of young people struggling with serious mental health disorders.…

DC sued over failure to help children with mental health troubles - Washington Examiner

August 14, 2018

Hundreds of emotionally troubled children have been placed into “harmful and unnecessary” detention centers or psychiatric facilities because the District of Columbia failed to help them as required under federal law, according to a class action lawsuit filed Tuesday.…

Lawsuit alleges D.C. has failed hundreds of emotionally disturbed children - Washington Post

August 14, 2018

Attorneys at several disability rights organizations have filed a class-action lawsuit against the D.C. government, alleging that District officials have failed to provide adequate mental-health services for hundreds of severely troubled children.…

A Back-to-School Lesson for 2018: As Elites Cut, the Masses Build - Common Dreams

August 11, 2018

As students and educators gear up for back-to-school this month, more and more of us are asking how we should make sense of public education in this political moment. The history of social movements makes clear that people want political education in moments of crisis…

The Trump Administration Was Ordered to Stop Drugging Kids in Custody - Rolling Stone

August 1, 2018

Even before the Trump administration took the dramatic and punitive step of separating migrant children from their parents in April, some 10,000 undocumented kids were already languishing in federal custody for an average of eight months. They’re housed in shelters scattered around the country, operated…

Trump Administration Ordered to Stop Giving Drugs to Migrant Children Without Consent - Newsweek

July 31, 2018

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the Trump administration to stop administering psychotropic drugs to immigrant children held in an immigration detention facility in Texas.…

‘Why Did You Leave Me?’ The Migrant Children Left Behind as Parents Are Deported - New York Times

July 31, 2018

Adayanci Perez Chavez, who was separated from her father when they crossed the border from Guatemala more than two months ago, has watched as one playmate after another has checked out of the migrant children’s center in Michigan where they have spent their days studying,…

Trump administration must stop giving psychotropic drugs to migrant children without consent, judge rules - Washington Post

July 31, 2018

A federal judge on Monday found that U.S. government officials have been giving psychotropic medication to migrant children at a Texas facility without first seeking the consent of their parents or guardians, in violation of state child welfare laws.…

They are young and in prison. This program could help them get out - USA Today

July 25, 2018

Inside an aging brick facility ringed by a chain-link fence and agricultural fields, 14 young people convicted of violent crimes are trying to program a better future for themselves.…