The Children’s Freedom Initiative – a collaboration to ensure that children live in permanent, family homes and not in institutions and nursing...
Living in the Community
Crisis in Georgia’s State Institutions
Many people have read the series of articles in the Atlanta Journal Constitutions titled “A Hidden Shame: Death in Georgia’s Mental Hospitals.”...
Yvette’s Story
While visiting a nursing facility, our TBI advocate met Yvette, a woman in her late thirties who was on her bed in the middle of the day, facing the wall. Nursing...
Children’s Freedom Initiative: Youth in Nursing Homes Seek Alternative Care
by Joseph Shapiro December 9, 2010 In a hotel ballroom outside Atlanta, a young man glides his wheelchair to the front of the meeting room. With his...