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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 133179" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>Thanks Linda. Assuming the petition for dependency is accepted (which I'm told it should be), Kanga will become a ward of the State. I will spend the next 4 months doing monthly court dates and monthly meetings with her caseworker. There may or may not be family therapy and/or supervised visitation. Once she is in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC), we will do whatever family therapy and staffing they determine. After 18-24 months, she will be evaluated to determine if she has made progress towards return home. If not, her goal will be changed to "independent living". At that point our involvement becomes 'optional' and Kanga will get some say in whether or not we get to visit/family therapy.</p><p></p><p>She will likely remain a ward of the State until she turns 21 at which point she will have been transitioned to our State's Adult Mental Health department.</p><p></p><p>They refuse to say there is no hope, but they were very clear that they see little hope. She doesn't carry an official "Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)" diagnosis because there are some Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s that won't take her with the label (but they will take her with all of the symptoms, go figure) but the clinical supervisor said I should do some research on Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) as she has it. Course, I already knew that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 133179, member: 1169"] Thanks Linda. Assuming the petition for dependency is accepted (which I'm told it should be), Kanga will become a ward of the State. I will spend the next 4 months doing monthly court dates and monthly meetings with her caseworker. There may or may not be family therapy and/or supervised visitation. Once she is in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC), we will do whatever family therapy and staffing they determine. After 18-24 months, she will be evaluated to determine if she has made progress towards return home. If not, her goal will be changed to "independent living". At that point our involvement becomes 'optional' and Kanga will get some say in whether or not we get to visit/family therapy. She will likely remain a ward of the State until she turns 21 at which point she will have been transitioned to our State's Adult Mental Health department. They refuse to say there is no hope, but they were very clear that they see little hope. She doesn't carry an official "Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)" diagnosis because there are some Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s that won't take her with the label (but they will take her with all of the symptoms, go figure) but the clinical supervisor said I should do some research on Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) as she has it. Course, I already knew that. [/QUOTE]
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