Families Against Restraint and Seclusion: Please help put a stop to the overuse of restraint and seclusion.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Please help put a stop to the overuse of restraint and seclusion.

I wanted to let you know about a new petition I just received We the People, a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your name to mine to help stop restraint and seclusion used on children with disabilities in the public school system? If this petition gets 25,000 signatures by February 11, 2013, the White House will review it and respond!

We petition the Obama administration to:

Support the Keeping All Students Safe Act to end the harmful and life-threatening use of restraints and seclusion rooms.

We call on the Obama Administration to support the Keeping All Students Safe Act to end the harmful and life-threatening use by schools of restraints and seclusion rooms, and to act to ensure that our schools are safe, laws are followed, and parents are free to speak up to help their children.

Created: Jan 12, 2013

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/support-keeping-all-students-safe-act-end-harmful-and-life-threatening-use-restraints-and-seclusion/gxwXvznN

Bill Lichtenstein

bill@lcmedia.com L

Cambridge, MA

Welcome to Families Against Restraint and Seclusion

If you've clicked on this blog, most likely it's because you or someone you love has experienced the overuse or unnecesary use of restraint and seclusion. If that's the case, we're glad you've found us, but are sorry you've had need to. We're here to provide guidance and support to those who need it.For everyone else, we wish to inform you that restraint and seclusion are very real and could happen to anyone's children. Every day children with disabilities are restrained or put in seclusion against their will with no parental notification for "noncompliance" and "behavior issues." We understand that under emergency conditions restraint and seclusion may be necessary as a last resort in order to protect the child from harm to self or others, but in many cases these incidences could be avoided.It is our belief that all children should be entitled to a free, appropriate, and SAFE education in the public school system, as specified under IDEA.Together, we can make this a reality for our children!

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Shouldn’t School Be Safe?

Parent Guide – Prevention, Identification and Response to Restraint and Seclusion Developed by parents and for parents. Shouldn’t School Be Safe? is a guide covering the prevention and identification
of, as well as the response to, instances of restraint, seclusion or other aversive interventions.
View and download this report by clicking on the link
below.

http://tash.org/wpcontent/uploads/2011/05/TASH_Shouldnt-School-Be-Safe1.pdf