Well, the technical term for CHIPS is Children In Need of Protective Services. Which seems to typically represent children that live in abusive, neglectful homes. Which is not our case. This program places the children out of the home. Our situation is that our DS who is 14(and facing 1 Felony charge of Burglary and a charge of being an accessory to a crime) is distrupting all that live in the house. He is in control and we cannot gain it back. We live as prisoners in our own home. Don't mistake us for spineless parents that have no backbone. lol We aren't that at all. As a matter of fact, yesterday we "hunted" our son down(his thing lately is not to come home from school and come home at about 9 or 10 @ night) and once he saw my husband he ran from him. We have our hands tied. Social services won't help. The police won't help(yeah, they threaten to handcuff our DS and take him to the station.) My son manipulates and uses my husband as the scapegoat for all of his misdoings with the police. This has been going on since DS believe it or not was in 2nd grade when he told SS that he and my husband watch porn. We have exhausted all efforts. I have called the police over 20 times this year to file missing persons reports on my DS, We have sent him to a mental health facility that did nothing, we sent him for 2 weeks to a youth counseling center(a state run facility). We are tired and done with all this and its affect on our 17yo daughter and 8 yo DS. Okay, got off track there but we now want him out of the home. And the PD gave us a business card for finding out info about this Chips petition. I wondered if anyone has heard of this.