{"id":2249,"date":"2021-08-30T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:38:55","slug":"putting-profit-above-childrens-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/30\/putting-profit-above-childrens-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Profit Above Children&#8217;s Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The child mental health industry is a system that puts profit above children&#8217;s lives, preying on unsuspecting parents and taking advantage of disadvantaged children, such as those covered under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/18\/medicaid\/\">Medicaid<\/a> (state and federal health coverage for lower income families and those with disabilities). It is rife with abuse, yet this hugely profitable industry is rarely held to account for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/22\/great-circle-child-abuse-in-missouri\/\">rampant abuse<\/a> of our most vulnerable\u2014children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The child mental health industry\u2014puts profit above children&#039;s lives\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hknwAlXYY8M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is an industry which milks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/28\/missouri-settlement-changes-psychiatric-drug-use-in-foster-kids\/\">foster care system<\/a> for huge profit, where children are four times more likely to be given mind-altering psychotropic drugs than non-foster care children, and much more likely to be prescribed cocktails of these drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is an industry that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banect.org\/\">electroshocks children<\/a> including babies, using state funds for lower income families (Medicaid).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a business masquerading as healthcare which sells parents and legislators on the idea of helping troubled children. Yet this help is more often simply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/invcommit.shtml\">incarcerating children<\/a> in behavioral schools or psychiatric wards, where treatment consists of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/truth.shtml\">psychiatric drug cocktails<\/a>, degradation, solitary confinement, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/restraints.shtml\">brutal restraint procedures<\/a> which have killed children. And all of this is done under the guise of helping children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abuse is not limited to one chain of psychiatric facilities or one mode of psychiatric behavioral &#8220;treatment.&#8221; This abuse in the child mental health industry is systemic\u2014yet unknown to most of the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example: Information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveals that 19 states are currently administering electroshock to children, with 7 of those states electroshocking children aged 0-5 years old. These are all children being electroshocked while psychiatrists and facilities bill Medicaid for their &#8220;treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet another example \u2014 Only one month after the world witnessed the tragic death of George Floyd, unable to breathe as he was physically restrained and held to the ground, 16-year-old Cornelius Frederick, an African American, was physically restrained at Sequel Youth &amp; Family Services&#8217; facility in Michigan, and also cried out, &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe!&#8221; before passing out. Thirty hours later, on May 1, 2020, he was dead. Cornelius had gone into cardiac arrest while being restrained by Lakeside Academy staff, a residential psychiatric facility that treated foster care and other kids with behavioral issues. A witness to Cornelius&#8217;s restraint said, &#8220;[T]his kid threw a sandwich. He was being unruly and they couldn&#8217;t control him. So, four guys\u2026the size of rugby players tackled him.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cornelius is not alone; countless children have suffocated and died after being subjected to deadly restraints within these psychiatric facilities and behavioral treatment centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not healthcare. This is child abuse. And it is just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please help us to support the cause and end the abuse of children in the psychiatric industry. We are making incredible progress, as many of the psychiatric facilities abusing these children are now under investigation. And many state legislators want to put an end to this abuse. There is more to be done, and so we ask you to continue to support our Fight For Kids campaign. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/takeaction.shtml\">support the cause<\/a> and also <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hknwAlXYY8M\">watch our latest video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightforkids.org\/child-psychiatric-treatment\">Child Psychiatric Treatment page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/childhood-is-not-a-mental-disorder-t-shirt-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/childhood-is-not-a-mental-disorder-t-shirt-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/childhood-is-not-a-mental-disorder-t-shirt-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/childhood-is-not-a-mental-disorder-t-shirt-1-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Childhood Is Not A Mental Disorder<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fight For Kids &#8211; &#8220;There can be no keener revelation of a society&#8217;s soul than the way in which it treats its children.&#8221; \u2014 Nelson Mandela <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/30\/putting-profit-above-childrens-lives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Putting Profit Above Children's Lives - The Fight For Kids","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[29,25,93,27,64,99,9],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","tag-abuse","tag-child-drugging","tag-ect","tag-foster-children","tag-involuntary-commitment","tag-medicaid","tag-restraints"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-Ah","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}