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Mental health care for kids ‘fractured’
Friday, July 9th, 2010
July 9, 2010
The mental health care system for children is “fractured” and needs better oversight, say critics after a Toronto Star investigation found a psychiatric centre was locking up kids who didn’t belong there… Ontario’s Children and Youth Advocate… [Irwin] Elman said unecessarily intrusive treatments are happening across the province, something he called a “fundamental systemic problem.” “It could be physical restraints or chemical restraints or the locking or blocking of young people in rooms,” he said.
Tags: mental Health, rights
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Premier promises action on youth superjail
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Mar 31 2010
“… I know you get just a few opportunities to turn young people around,” McGuinty said. “We want to have the best kinds of programming in there so that it improves them as people,” he said. “And we’re not accomplishing that right now.”…
The plan, released Wednesday, includes phasing in more staff training, anger-management programs for detainees and improving the assessment process that determines to what unit youths are directed on arrival.
Tags: corrections
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Jail for youth not safe, report says
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Mar 30 2010
Ontario’s newest superjail for youth is not safe for its teenage inmates, a report by the province’s children and youth advocate says.
…the root of the centre’s “crisis” as a fundamental disagreement between staff and managers about how to run the facility: Should it be the inmates-behind-bars approach or a more progressive model? The ministry says it’s committed to the latter.
Tags: corrections
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