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                                                  Read what the professionals have to say ...
                                                              

Representative Miller Statement on Justice Department Announcement on Martin Lee Anderson Case  - click here

National Mental Health Association - "The Role of Involuntary Commitment"; "What Are Juvenile Boot Camps", and more - click here

Bazelon Center for Mental Health - Fact Sheet: Children in Residential Treatment Center - click here

Bazelon Center for Mental Health - Court Orders Community Mental Health Services for Thousands of California Foster Children - click here

Child Welfare League of America - Letter to Congress about the need for regulations in unlicensed residential programs and camps - click here

Citizens Commission on Human Rights - Interim Report on Restraint Deaths in Psychiatric Institutions- click here

Charly's Report: Restraint Asphyxia: Silent Killer: click here

One-On-One Therapy Works Best - 'Get Tough' Programs Don't Curb Youth Violence  - click here

Trauma of Children in a Wilderness Treatment Program - Abstract - click here

Practicing Restraints by the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) - click here

Alliance for the Safe, Therapeutic & Appropriate Use of Residential Treatment - ASTART - click here

Principles for the Elimination of Restraints, "Effective Alternatives to Use of Restraints" by Peter R. Breggin, M.D. - click here

AACP Newsletter: Residential Treatment for Youth: Do No Harm! - click here

Warning Signs: Wilderness Program May Be Unsafe Or Dangerous, By: Michael Conner, Psy.D - click here

(CBS) Almost every institution featured in Unsafe Haven - an Online Haven has been created - click here


National Criminal Justice Reference Service - "What Doesn't Work" and National Study - click here

 

 

 

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