Introduction Over 100 000 service users are admitted to acute mental health wards annually, many involuntarily. Wards are under incredible pressure due to high bed occupancy rates and staff shortages.

Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center, a psychiatric residential facility in Cañon City that serves youth ages 10 to 18, ...

For the past three years, a UConn professor and her students have been piecing together the history of the Mansfield Training ...

Disability Law Colorado released a report this week on a residential treatment center in Cañon City it says has left the children in unsafe conditions. The Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center is ...

In the first five months of 2024, staff physically restrained patients an average of 150 times per month, or five times in a ...

Schools reported thousands of cases involving students with disabilities. But the real number of students who experienced ...

Scenario: John, a retired teacher, moves into a nursing home with a high staff turnover rate and a poor reputation, but his family brushes off these red flags. In just a few weeks, John develops ...

WCVB NEWSCENTER 5. SARA. THANK YOU. FIVE INVESTIGATES BRITTANY JOHNSTON HAS BEEN DIGGING INTO HOW RESTRAINTS ARE USED IN MASSACHUSETTS AND HOW DANGEROUS THEY CAN BE. BRITTANY MARIA. STUDENTS ARE ...

The Jefferson Parish school district is requesting up to $4 million from the school board to install cameras in all 327 of its special education classrooms in order to comply with a new law that adds ...

CONCERNS have been raised about the use of physical restraint on children in an Edinburgh mental health unit. A report has said that the use of restraint in the Melville Unit at the city’s Royal ...