North Carolina: “Lawsuit accuses DHHS of ‘warehousing’ NC children with disabilities in foster care”
“They are often confined to prison-like settings under the care of a poorly trained and understaffed workforce, where they are subject to broken bones, sprains, bruises, and dangerous physical and chemical restraints,” the lawsuit contends. Disability Rights North Carolina and the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP have joined forces to help children of […]
Ja’Ceon Terry
7yo foster care child restrained and killed at a psychiatric residential center “Ja’Ceon Terry, a 7-year-old foster care child was restrained and killed at a psychiatric residential center in Kentucky on July 17, 2022. In September, the medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, finding he had been suffocated.” “It is the second high-profile death […]