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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 411824" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>Thanks all. The director called back and said that she talked to Kanga's case manager who claimed to know nothing about this. She did tell me that Kanga had been caught planning to meet with a boy on the job site but that staff stopped her (gee, why am I just finding that out now??). The teacher and another direct staff were off today so she is going to talk to them 1st thing tomorrow. They are also having a previously scheduled meeting with all the right people and will add Kanga to the agenda. </p><p></p><p>Complaints will be filed but the state is down to so few places that are willing to take kids (due to the very very late payments the state is making) that I doubt they will drop this place as they currently have over 100 residents on state funding. In talking to people, it seems that this place is very cyclic, they provide great services, there is staff turnover, quality of services decline, parents complain, service improves, repeat. </p><p></p><p>This place assured us that they were very capable of supervising hypersexual youths. Kanga is on a special protection plan that is suppose to ensure even tighter supervision than normal -- "eyesight at all times outside of the unit". Yeah, right. </p><p></p><p>I was blunt with the new place that the #1 reason we were moving her was this lack of supervision. They were horrified and said they'd move their child as well. The new Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is much smaller (18 youth in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and 16 youth in the TLP compared to ~150 youth at current Residential Treatment Center (RTC)). The smaller environment means a smaller pool of staff so a better chance of everyone being up to speed on her protection plan. </p><p></p><p>We have accepted that Kanga will not change. She is happy with who she is and is merely biding her time until she is old enough to leave treatment. Chances are very good that we will lose contact with her at that point. The new place said that if/when she is accepted that we will work with them to develop a long term plan for her that will meet our requirements, fit in their system and give Kanga a very clear plan on what to do to get to TLP and then to adult living. They have basic behavioral requirements that the youth must meet to move to the next level but each youth also has individual goals for each level. Kanga's would include (1) not manipulating staff (2) not making plans to violate the protection plan (3) no sexual acting out. If she does those things, it will trigger an automatic consequence. </p><p></p><p>She is being interviewed on Friday. I think we will tell her either the night before or that morning. Not sure I trust the staff enough to give them anymore advance warning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 411824, member: 1169"] Thanks all. The director called back and said that she talked to Kanga's case manager who claimed to know nothing about this. She did tell me that Kanga had been caught planning to meet with a boy on the job site but that staff stopped her (gee, why am I just finding that out now??). The teacher and another direct staff were off today so she is going to talk to them 1st thing tomorrow. They are also having a previously scheduled meeting with all the right people and will add Kanga to the agenda. Complaints will be filed but the state is down to so few places that are willing to take kids (due to the very very late payments the state is making) that I doubt they will drop this place as they currently have over 100 residents on state funding. In talking to people, it seems that this place is very cyclic, they provide great services, there is staff turnover, quality of services decline, parents complain, service improves, repeat. This place assured us that they were very capable of supervising hypersexual youths. Kanga is on a special protection plan that is suppose to ensure even tighter supervision than normal -- "eyesight at all times outside of the unit". Yeah, right. I was blunt with the new place that the #1 reason we were moving her was this lack of supervision. They were horrified and said they'd move their child as well. The new Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is much smaller (18 youth in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and 16 youth in the TLP compared to ~150 youth at current Residential Treatment Center (RTC)). The smaller environment means a smaller pool of staff so a better chance of everyone being up to speed on her protection plan. We have accepted that Kanga will not change. She is happy with who she is and is merely biding her time until she is old enough to leave treatment. Chances are very good that we will lose contact with her at that point. The new place said that if/when she is accepted that we will work with them to develop a long term plan for her that will meet our requirements, fit in their system and give Kanga a very clear plan on what to do to get to TLP and then to adult living. They have basic behavioral requirements that the youth must meet to move to the next level but each youth also has individual goals for each level. Kanga's would include (1) not manipulating staff (2) not making plans to violate the protection plan (3) no sexual acting out. If she does those things, it will trigger an automatic consequence. She is being interviewed on Friday. I think we will tell her either the night before or that morning. Not sure I trust the staff enough to give them anymore advance warning. [/QUOTE]
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