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Disability rights, intellectual and developmental disabilities, foster care discrimination, Samantha R case, NAACP, Disability Rights NC
A state Superior Court judge issued a stay Thursday of his order that sets services benchmarks for more than 16,000 North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Disability Rights North Carolina and the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP have joined forces to help children of color with disabilities in the state's foster care program get more community- and home-based treatment instead of being "warehoused" in locked psychiatric facilities that can be dangerous.
A federal lawsuit has been filed against state Health Secretary Kody Kinsley addressing the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services' foster-care placement services for children with disabilities.
An 2021 investigation by journalists featured shocking details of neglect, abuse inside North Carolina’s psychiatric residential treatment facilities.