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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 492785" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p>There is one other option. It's a tough one, but then again this situation is not safe. You can take him to your youth services (or what ever they call the place that parents can drop their kids for a brief respite and refuse to take custody of him when they call you in. DCFS will swoop in and investigate an abandonment issue (interesting since they are the ones that told me to do ti in order to get help). They will find nothing you have done, and be forced to find a bed either in a mental health fascility or therapeutic placement. Our state hospitol has lost a bunch of beds as well. Some states offer a thing called a CHINS (child in need of services). Our church helped with some of the costs with our first residential placement. Almost 90% of the kids in the place got help from somewhere , they are just not affordable. The United Way has some programs as well. I can't say the system is any better but at least there is not the risk that he is out there in danger.</p><p></p><p>Buddy, hardly any sate makes it an offense for running unless they are under court orders. Mine ran more than 20 times and was truent 35 out of 40 days of school inbetween RTCs. Nobody would help! The schools in most states have to handle their own truency issues in house. Overloaded courts and crappy MH services.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 492785, member: 11001"] There is one other option. It's a tough one, but then again this situation is not safe. You can take him to your youth services (or what ever they call the place that parents can drop their kids for a brief respite and refuse to take custody of him when they call you in. DCFS will swoop in and investigate an abandonment issue (interesting since they are the ones that told me to do ti in order to get help). They will find nothing you have done, and be forced to find a bed either in a mental health fascility or therapeutic placement. Our state hospitol has lost a bunch of beds as well. Some states offer a thing called a CHINS (child in need of services). Our church helped with some of the costs with our first residential placement. Almost 90% of the kids in the place got help from somewhere , they are just not affordable. The United Way has some programs as well. I can't say the system is any better but at least there is not the risk that he is out there in danger. Buddy, hardly any sate makes it an offense for running unless they are under court orders. Mine ran more than 20 times and was truent 35 out of 40 days of school inbetween RTCs. Nobody would help! The schools in most states have to handle their own truency issues in house. Overloaded courts and crappy MH services. [/QUOTE]
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