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Questions Are Raised on Restraint Training
This examination detailed how school districts across California have relied on dubious techniques developed by an obscure industry to physically restrain unruly students. While few of these restraint maneuvers are grounded in evidence-based research, they are used to subdue students who are emotionally disturbed or mentally disabled -- some of the most difficult and sensitive situations that teachers encounter. The story also found that there is little regulatory oversight of the restraint industry.
Tags: California; students; restraint
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Closed Doors: Housing Discrimination Complaints on Rise Across Country
The reporters looked at records of more than 44,000 housing discrimination complaints filed with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development between 2002 and 2006. The analysis revealed many trends about discrimination in housing, including that discrimination is more prevalent in less diverse neighborhoods, and that complaints about disabilities are just as common as complaints about race.
Tags: Philip Meyer Award; discrimination; HUD; housing; landlords; racism; disability; database analysis; Census data
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MRDD Boss Profits from his Nonprofit
This series of articles investigates how a nonprofit CEO routed money from the organization into his own private business. Findings included misrepresentation, diversion of cash and possible tax evasion.
Tags: nonprofit; Leadership First; Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities; MRDD; Ohio State University; charity; money
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Fatal Errors, Secret Deaths
The Hartford Courant investigates covered-up deaths resulting from neglect and staff errors in Connecticut's group homes for mentally retarded. Patients often fell victim to suffocation, drowning, choking, burns and potentially treatable infections. Other findings include that the state secretive system conceals suspicious deaths and their causes not only from the general public, but even from next of kin; that the death rate in group homes has tripled from 1990 to 2000; and that the State Department of Mental Retardation is ineffective in investigating and taking actions against faulty group home operators. The group home system costs Connecticut taxpayers $260 million a year, the Courant reports.
Tags: mental health; FOI requests; development disabilities; state government; health care
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Worries About Safety of Its Anthrax Vaccine Put the Army in a Bind
The Wall Street Journal reports on side effects from anthrax vaccine, which have put the U.S. Army in a difficult position. The story reveals that hundreds of soldiers have claimed harm or disability from the anti-anthrax shots, and 102 people have been court-martialed for refusing to take the vaccine. The article follows the developments in the army anthrax vaccination program in recent years, and exposes failures in the performance of BioPort, the military's anthrax vaccine supplier.
Tags: vaccines; terrorism; biological weapons; FBI; FDA; BioPort; Department of Health and Human Services; defense; Steven-Johnson syndrome
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Beyond Shelter
Governing reports on Broward County's efforts to combat its homeless problem. The homeless were living in a tent city across the street from Fort Lauderdale City Hall. Now they're living in "Homeless Assistance Centers," which offer job and life skills instead of just a place to stay for the night. Though the program is geared towards long-term solutions, critics say that certain kinds of homeless people -- the disabled, the mentally ill -- are not able to live with the restrictions of the centers.
Tags: homelessness; homeless shelters; tent cities; Housing and Urban Development
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No way in
Dateline conducts a three-part investigation of a problem that most of us would rather ignore -- the plight of people with disabilites. Research found that more than 75 percent of those with severe disabilities are unemplyed and that half of those disabled will encounter some form of discrimination when looking for housing.
Tags: TAPE Hidden camera Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD