Category Archives: Palm Beach Post

Palm Beach Post Opinion November is National Adoption Month, a fitting time to recognize the strides Florida has made in turning around its foster care system and putting more children into permanent homes. The state’s child welfare system is still … Continue reading →

Palm Beach Post by Opinion Staff George Sheldon, head of the Florida Department of Children and families, says that 2,699 children in foster care — about 13 percent of the total — are taking one or more psychotropic drugs. That’s … Continue reading →

Palm Beach Post A government agency rarely assumes immediate responsibility for a failure and then expedites a remedy. But Department of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon did just that after 7-year-old Gabriel Myers killed himself at his Broward County … Continue reading →

Palm Beach Post By DARA KAM Capital Bureau TALLAHASSEE — Three times more children in state care are being given mind-altering drugs than kids in the general population, according to an audit of the Department of Children and Families. And … Continue reading →

Palm Beach Post Post on Politics by Dara Kam More than 16 percent of the children in state care are being given mind-altering medications without the consent of a guardian or judge as required by state law, according to an … Continue reading →

Palm Beach Post By Rhonda Swan Palm Beach Post Editorial Writer Maxine is not the woman she used to be. She looks the same, except for the white Afro that used to be black. But gone is her zany sense … Continue reading →