Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth
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| Founded | 2006 |
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| Founder | Charles King and Kathryn Whitehead |
| Focus | Children's rights, Youth rights |
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Area served
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United States |
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Key people
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Executive Director Kathryn Whitehead |
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Volunteers
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50 |
| Slogan | Care, NOT Coercion |
The Community Alliance For the Ethical Treatment of Youth (CAFETY) is an advocacy group for people enrolled in residential treatment programs for at-risk teenagers. The group's mission includes advocating for access to advocates, due process, alternatives to aversive behavioral interventions, and alternatives to restraints and seclusion for young people in treatment programs. They have also called for the routine reporting of abuse in residential treatment programs, as well as federal government oversight and regulation of residential treatment programs.
CAFETY is registered as a nonprofit corporation in New York. It is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors and also maintains an Advisory Board.
CAFETY's current Executive Director is Kathryn Whitehead. As one of its key spokespeople, she has been featured in Mother Jones,Time Magazine and The NewStandard. Whitehead's and CAFETY's work on the issues of trauma and human rights abuses of youth in residential care, respectively, has also been published in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
CAFETY was founded in 2006 by Charles King and Kathryn Whitehead, with the goal: "to create a forum for youth advocacy and support designed to develop and shape youth-guided policies and practices with a specific emphasis on the ethical treatment of youth with behavioral, emotional, and mental health problems in institutional settings". By July of that year, CAFETY had 118 members and 8 core group members from across the United States, including at least one medical professional.
CAFETYs' 'Care, NOT Coercion' Campaign seeks to end institutionalized child abuse and human rights violations in institutional settings. The organization additionally advocates for the regulation of, and the efficacy in treatment in such settings. In pursuit of that objective, CAFETY has chiefly focused its efforts on actively mobilizing its members in public education efforts and supporting and providing testimony in support of legislation aimed at the regulation of residential treatment facilities in the United States.
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