When other child psychiatric hospitals in Virginia turn patients away, the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents becomes the safety net. The Commonwealth Center serves youth who require ...

Holding a child with developmental disabilities to the ground should be a last-resort method of calming them down, say attorneys for a family suing a children's hospital and school for its treatment ...

If anyone in the area knows what restraint means, it’s the trained staff of the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents. If anyone knows what it means to be restrained, it’s the teenagers who ...

Imagine being held face down 137 times, sometimes for more than one hour at a time by caregivers, over the course of six months and you had no idea what you’d done to deserve such treatment. That’s ...

Education How a School Stopped Relying on Restraining and Isolating Students — and What Others Can Learn From It Some Illinois schools say they need to keep using dangerous forms of physical restraint ...

Fitch said he didn't "know all the nuances of what would or wouldn't define a chemical restraint, except a restraint is something that is going to be used primarily for the benefit of the staff as ...

Last month, the rules for secure training centres were amended to allow restraint to be used as a means of "ensuring good order and discipline" rather than only to prevent harm, escape or damage to ...

CONCORD (AP) — Children were restrained or secluded in New Hampshire's residential treatment facilities more than 20,000 times in five years, according to a state watchdog office's report released ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Board of Education (VBOE) is in the final stages of putting together regulations for when public schools can use a controversial type of discipline, seclusion and ...

This story is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and the Chicago Tribune. Amending emergency rules put in place two weeks ago, the Illinois State Board of Education says it will again allow ...