The Baker Act - Learn Your Rights

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The Baker Act in Florida allows a child, an adult or an elder to be involuntarily sent for a psychiatric examination.

This seminar is designed to provide mental health providers with a thorough understanding of the Florida Mental Health Act (Baker Act) including its history, use, impact on human rights and actions to take while protecting vulnerable persons and their rights.

Specific Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the legal context and intentions of the Baker Act.

2. Be able to describe the laws regarding involuntary examinations.

3. Be able to identify the basic human rights impacted by the Baker Act and the Act’s unintended consequences.

4. Obtain action steps to protect yourself, your children, and all those impacted by the Baker Act.

Special guest speaker:

Diane Stein, Mental Health Rights Expert and President of Citizens Commission on Human Right of Florida.

An experienced speaker who received certification on the Baker Act, Florida's mental health law, through the Department of Children and Families, Diane is sought after on topics ranging from involuntary psychiatric examination and mental health rights to the dangerous side effects of psychiatric medication.

As a Newsweek Expert, Diane is regularly interviewed by journalists and investigative reporters on emergency psychiatric holds including those involving children and the violation of parental and child rights under these circumstances.

Host:

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida (CCHR) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health watchdog organization dedicated to the restoration of human rights in the mental health industry.

This live seminar is designed for:

· Mental Health Counselors

· Social Workers

· Marriage / Family Therapists

· Law Enforcement Officers

· School Staff / Teachers

· Concerned Parents

Submit your questions to: info@cchrflorida.org

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