CCHR Florida Wins Media Relations Award for Campaign to Protect Children and Parental Rights
Mental Health Human Rights: Protection of Children 2023 Communications & Campaigns Winner for Media Relations Campaign
The headquarters for CCHR Florida are located in downtown Clearwater.
An experienced speaker who received certification on the Baker Act, Florida's mental health law, through the Department of Children and Families Diane Stein is sought after on topics such as coercive psychiatry and mental health human rights.
The winners for this year’s Social Impact Awards are exemplary models of corporate social responsibility and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Recognized for their outstanding work, CCHR organized a campaign that helped pass key pieces of legislation protecting children and parental rights.
Recognized for their outstanding work, CCHR organized a campaign that helped pass key pieces of legislation protecting children and parental rights.
Diane Stein, president for the Florida chapter of CCHR, and her team set out to help amend the law to restore parental rights in the area of mental health. The team first began raising awareness on the need for change through events, traditional and social media, and via press releases after developing a PR and communications strategy to restore parental rights and protect children from unjust involuntary psychiatric examination, called a Baker Act. Next, CCHR created a booklet, Parental Rights in Florida: A Guide for Parents, which was mailed out to families, policy makers, school districts and law enforcement in the state. Once policy makers had filed the bills needed to make the changes, the team launched an email marketing and social media campaign to have Florida families contact members of the Florida Legislature resulting in the passage of multiple bills protecting children and families from mental health abuse.
“Using online and other means of communication, we were able to raise awareness on these issues and to help make positive changes in our state. The success of this campaign demonstrates that a small group of well-intentioned people can change their community for the better,” said Diane Stein.
In total, the communications campaign reached tens of millions in the state of Florida and resulted in new and revised laws that accomplished the goal of protecting Floridians from abusive mental health practices.
About CCHR: Initially established by the Church of Scientology and renowned psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz in 1969, CCHR’s mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health and enact patient and consumer protections. L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology, first brought psychiatric imprisonment to wide public notice: “Thousands and thousands are seized without process of law, every week, over the ‘free world’ tortured, castrated, killed. All in the name of ‘mental health,’” he wrote in March 1969.
Sources:
[1] 2023 Digital Awards https://www.prnewsonline.com/go/2023-digital-social-media-awards/
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As a parent in Florida, you have the right to help your minor child in a time of crisis before the initiation of a Baker Act.
