The government has suspended the use of two restraint techniques used on children in custody after a panel of medical experts raised concerns about the safety of the "nose distraction" and the "double ...
When other child psychiatric hospitals in Virginia turn patients away, the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents becomes the safety net. The Commonwealth Center serves youth who require ...
A 16-year-old girl dies after being physically restrained by staff members during a disruption in a Katy facility for troubled kids. Officials defend the control technique, called the "basket hold," ...
The method of restraint used in YOIs is control and restraint (C&R), which was originally designed for adults. Its techniques are based on the martial art of aikido and it is a pain-compliant ...
Holding a child with developmental disabilities to the ground should be a last-resort method of calming them down, say attorneys for a family suing a children's hospital and school for its treatment ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAKE TOXAWAY, N.C. (WGHP) — The mental image ...
The illegal use of physical restraint by staff members at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester resulted in the fractured shoulder blade of a child with a disability, according to a report ...
CONCORD (AP) — Children were restrained or secluded in New Hampshire's residential treatment facilities more than 20,000 times in five years, according to a state watchdog office's report released ...
A Kane In Your Corner investigation found that some school districts are physically restraining students with special needs and not telling parents, a violation of state law. Some are also using a ...