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Q&A: Erica Floyd-Thomas on suicide prevention and behavioral health in Florida Share this: Erica Floyd-Thomas is the assistant secretary for substance abuse and mental health at the Florida Department of Children and Families. Thomas’ work encompasses everything from supporting community-based behavioral health services, to operating state mental hospitals, to overseeing mobile response teams for crisis stabilization. In Thomas’ words:  “If you can think about it in the behavioral health space, we are responsible for it.”     One of the department’s key developments during the pa...

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said the deputies rendered aid to the man who could have killed them.

The girl had been subjected to the Baker Act, which allows detainment for psychological reasons, numerous times and had threatened to kill herself.

Questions abound about the Palm Beach County School District officials’ troubling use of the Baker Act to handle unruly children — so flagrantly misusing the statute that in a recent

Polk County Sheriff's investigators say John Smith murdered Shaun Seaman on May 13 as the men shared a cell in the medical unit on suicide watch.