This comes via a USAian friend's yahoo IM status message.
This friend is promoting a call for people to support the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion Act, on Thursday 21st January. It is, apparently, bill H.R. 4247/S.2860 (copied from the status message), and was introduced last month.
The Alliance to Prevent Restraint, Aversive Interventions, and Seclusion website doesn't have any obvious information about it, and I see a small mention on the linked TASH site, which links to a .pdf file with more information about the details of the legislation and what they want done.
As I say, it looks like something that needs doing and needs support from people in the USA, so this post is just to let people know it's out there.
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