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Disability Rights North Carolina and the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP have joined forces to help children of color with disabilities in the state's foster care program get more community- and home-based treatment instead of being "warehoused" in locked psychiatric facilities that can be dangerous.
Lawsuit faults Maine DHHS for use of powerful medications on foster children
The federal government raised concerns about the use of psychotropic medications on Maine foster children in 2018.
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Jack Woodcock is a lawyer who has filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the state of Maine alleging that children in foster care are being given psychotropic drugs without proper safeguards and oversight.
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Children’s rights advocates have filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Maine on behalf of children in foster care who they allege are being given psychotropic drugs without proper safeguards and oversight.