An Invitation to Action
The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) invites you to participate in a campaign to end the inappropriate and harmful sedation of tens of thousands of foster children. High doses of psychotropic “antipsychotic” drugs produce lethargic, “zoned out” children, preventing their normal development. Medical guidelines do not sanction such sedation.
President Obama signed the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act in September 2011. This new law requires state child welfare agencies to adopt protocols for the appropriate use and monitoring of psychotropic medications for foster children.
(Children in Foster Care are already Incredibly Vulnerable. They need special care and love. They do not need to be medicated with drugs that have dangerous side effects and aren't approved for children. It may be easier for large organizations like state welfare systems to drug kids than to treat their normal pain and anger that is the result of rejection, abuse, humiliation, shame .... but I say do what is RIGHT and JUST not what is easy and expedient. Easy, expedient, these do not help or serve children .. they simply serve to say "we have done something." Drugging children must end. Children have been Traumatized Enough!.) Thanks Tina
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