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Decision Time - Two Lousy Choices and No Options Left...
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 458266" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>That is a therapuetic mentor- well, at least what people in the system call a therapuetic mentor. That's the ONLY "service" provided my difficult child when he was released from Department of Juvenile Justice last year. It's a wonderful thing...for PCs who need a little peer advice. It didn't seem to do much to help my difficult child. Plus, the "mentors" were no more dependable than most mentoring programs I've heard about. And why they call it therapuetic is beyond me- they didn't do anything different than any other mentoring program. It's lip service- like most of this BS.</p><p></p><p>I don't want to squelch any real hope or possibility but DF, you know how I feel about this- there just isn't much out there for our kids. And they seem to provide that little amount to the kids who are very unlikely to ever be ever to benefit from it. Just like people who need drug/alcohol treatment- they wait until a person has been a heroin addict living under a bridge for ten years, then court order it so there are no openings left for others and the odds of success for that person are slim to none. Our system has been working that way for many, many years. It never ceases to amaze me that they can't and don't wise up.</p><p></p><p>I'm sorry- I hope you can find some loophole that gives you something. ((HUGS))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 458266, member: 3699"] That is a therapuetic mentor- well, at least what people in the system call a therapuetic mentor. That's the ONLY "service" provided my difficult child when he was released from Department of Juvenile Justice last year. It's a wonderful thing...for PCs who need a little peer advice. It didn't seem to do much to help my difficult child. Plus, the "mentors" were no more dependable than most mentoring programs I've heard about. And why they call it therapuetic is beyond me- they didn't do anything different than any other mentoring program. It's lip service- like most of this BS. I don't want to squelch any real hope or possibility but DF, you know how I feel about this- there just isn't much out there for our kids. And they seem to provide that little amount to the kids who are very unlikely to ever be ever to benefit from it. Just like people who need drug/alcohol treatment- they wait until a person has been a heroin addict living under a bridge for ten years, then court order it so there are no openings left for others and the odds of success for that person are slim to none. Our system has been working that way for many, many years. It never ceases to amaze me that they can't and don't wise up. I'm sorry- I hope you can find some loophole that gives you something. ((HUGS)) [/QUOTE]
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