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In This Issue: Focus on DCFS Overreaching (Part I) and New National Advocacy Project Expand’s Center’s Impact
Features:
Ashley M. v. DCFS: Class Action Lawsuit Seeks to End DCFS’s Continued Use of Allegation 60 “Enviroment Injurious” As a Basis for Finding Child Neglect, page 1
Family Defense Briefs, page 2
The Family Defense Center Promotes Affirmative Legislative Changes, page 3
Mother and Child File Civil Rights Suit Against DCFS Director Alleging Discrimination and Due Process Violations Related to Family Separation, Demand for Unneeded Psychiatric Hospitalization and Unauthorized Restrictions on Familial Rights, page 5
“Factitious Disorder By Proxy” Allegations: DCFS Investigators Diagnose and indicate Mothers Based on an Ambiguous and Highly Controversial Mental Illness, page 6
DCFS Oversimplifies and Over-reports “Failure to Thrive” Diagnoses, page 9
Anita Weinberg’s Acceptance Speech: On Accepting the Family Defender 2013 Award from the Family Defense Center, Chicago, Illinois, September 23, 2013, page 12
National Advocacy Project Expands Center’s Reach, page 16
Family Defense Center’s National Advocacy Project Takes on Pennsylvania Lawsuit, page 17
Can You Believe This?, page 19