TAG / FOSTER CARE

RESULTS

MENTAL HEALTH

Black Youth Disproportionately Killed by Violent Restraint in Psychiatric Facilities

A new report finds over 30 percent of those who die under facedown holds are Black and most perish within five minutes of restraint.

MENTAL HEALTH

Foster Children on Psychotropic Drugs Are an Epidemic Requiring Urgent Reform

Abuses abound in foster care and elsewhere, as over 6 million kids are prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs. Over 400,000 of them are five years old or younger, and no one is tracking the side effects.