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Disability Wales has been carrying out training in disability equality and has hit out at planned changes to social care.

Disability Wales has been carrying out training in disability equality and has hit out at planned changes to social care.

After hearing concerns from people with family members with disabilities, advocates ask a superior court judge to amend his previous order.

They are just people and therefore, should be treated as such.

More mental health advocacy groups are speaking out against Maine’s so-called progressive treatment program following the Thanksgiving Day murder of Gabriel Damour in Poland.

The state’s only psychiatric hospital for adults has been discharging patients to homeless shelters with no plan for care and sometimes without medications, according to a report from a designated watchdog group.

The state’s only psychiatric hospital for adults has been discharging patients to homeless shelters with no plan for care and sometimes without medications, according to a report from a designated watchdog group.

On her way home after picking up her son from Centers for Youth and Families, Tricia Ellinger pulled over to throw his shoes away. The boy's shoes reeked after his months-long stay, and she couldn't bear to keep them in the car.

Special Report They were home now, evacuated from the chaos at Lakeside Academy. About this project This story is a collaboration between The San Francisco Chronicle and The Imprint, an independent, nonprofit publication dedicated to covering child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and educational issues faced by vulnerable youth. To report the story, Joaquin Palomino and Cynthia Dizikes of The Chronicle and Sara Tiano of The Imprint obtained hundreds of incident reports through ...