Committed: Kids With Disabilities Increasingly Swept Into Mental Health System Under Baker Act
Martina Faulk, and her daughter, Nadia King, embrace in a photograph. Each year, about 36,000 children in Florida are involuntarily committed for psychiatric evaluations under the states Baker Act and disabled kids are becoming increasingly ensnared. The Baker Act was not designed for kids, yet the number of children who are involuntarily committed keeps going up. State data shows kids with certain disabilities are becoming increasingly ensnared โ despite language in the law meant to keep the...
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