Category Archives: News Press

Fort Myers News Press The Gabriel Myers Work Group will meet Thursday to review its final report and recommendations. Department of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon established the group to review the use of psychotropic medication to treat children … Continue reading →

News Press (Fort Myers) By Janine Zeitlin The head of Florida’s child welfare agency vowed to carry out and put dollars behind recommendations in a recent report that shows officials have often ignored years-old guidelines on medicating children in state … Continue reading →

News-Press (Fort Myers) Florida’s child welfare system has a detailed framework to protect foster children taking psychotropic medications, but officials often don’t follow it, concluded a state review released today. The Department of Children and Families issued a final report … Continue reading →

Fort Myers News Press Panel: Foster children drugged to calm them By JANINE ZEITLIN Medicating children in state care is often an unregulated, haphazard process in which drugs are prescribed to help caregivers calm difficult children instead of treating them, … Continue reading →

News Press By JANINE ZEITLIN jzeitlin@news-press.com Department of Children and Families data released Friday showed that the number of Southwest Florida children in foster care taking psychotropic drugs was higher than originally thought. Last week, DCF secretary, George Sheldon, released … Continue reading →

News Press By JANINE ZEITLIN jzeitlin@news-press.com The head of the state’s child welfare agency vowed Thursday to improve oversight of the 13 percent of children in care who are prescribed psychotropic drugs, and also raised concerns about use of those … Continue reading →

News Press, Fort Myers, Florida More than 13 percent of children in Department of Children and Families custody are taking one or more psychotropic, or mind-altering drugs, according to a review released today. The Children’s Network of Southwest Florida counted … Continue reading →