November 11, 2021
Officials try to put children in psychiatric facilities near family. But when they can’t find a placement locally, the kids are sent to out-of-state centers — some that have been accused of physical and sexual abuse and other mistreatment.
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- Timothy B. v. Kinsley
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Children’s Rights, Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), North Carolina Chapter NAACP State Conference (NC NAACP), and Moore & Van Allen filed Timothy B. v. Kinsley against the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for its pervasive, system-wide practice of unnecessarily warehousing children with disabilities in foster care in dangerous, locked psychiatric institutions—sometimes sending them out of state, hundreds of miles away from their families and communities.
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