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Working Together to Reduce Seclusion and Restraint in Schools and Youth Facilities [PPT]

Massachusetts restraint/seclusion reduction initiative and links to more publications

Ohio Governor Signs Executive Order Establishing Physical Restraint Policies for State Agencies

Families against Restraint and Seclusion

Experiences of restraint and seclusion [PPT]

Recovery Not Restraints

Comfort Rooms that Work

CNN: Children forced into cell-like school seclusion rooms

NAMI Task Force Report on Restraint and Seclusion

A Cell of One's Own, a first person account of solitary confinement in prison

Investigation of restraint device use in Iowa's county jails

Join Restraint Free, a bulletin board for discussing strategies to eliminate the use of restraint and seclusion

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) -- position statement on restraints and seclusion

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) -- policy research institute task force report

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law -- restraint and seclusion

Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)

Restraint and Seclusion -- a Risk Management Guide

For details on how a provider reduced its use of seclusion and restraints by 93% in one year, visit: Behavioral Healthcare 2008 December;28(12):6-7

Mental Health America Position Statement

For more information, contact: restraintfree@bostonresourcecenter.org

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