Word Mental Health Day: Parental Rights, Florida’s Baker Act Law and the CCHR Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, October 3, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- World Mental Health Day 2023, will be marked in Orlando with a complimentary seminar held on October 8th in the auditorium at the Church of Scientology Orlando located at 6670 Lake Ellenor Drive from 11:30am to 1:00pm. Organized by the Florida chapter of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), the event will feature speakers knowledgeable in the area of parental rights and the mental health law, called the Baker Act in Florida.

In the years 2020-2021 approximately 38 thousand children were taken into custody and transported to a psychiatric facility for an involuntarily examination, some of them as young as 5 years old. This is an increase of 77% in the last decade. [1]

During the 2021 legislative session lawmakers in Florida passed two bills with the intent of increasing the protection of children and parental rights – The School Safety Bill and the Parents’ Bill of Rights.