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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

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Other people have their own ideas about this; there is a document published by a group of authors, including Alberto Vásquez and Peter Stastny, in which they address crisis support, and I think they have a somewhat more conservative approach than me.

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Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine”

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‘Unfortunately, in many hospitals, the door only swings one way,’ Davidson says. As many lawsuits have documented, child welfare agencies across the country rely on locked psychiatric facilities, many of which use punitive disciplinary tactics, to house difficult-to-place kids. The problem transcends Alaska or UHS.