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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 565066" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I dont know if it was the timing of when I was searching for help with Cory but I tend not to think so because it took me a long time to find the support I finally managed to get. I know I spent the better part of at least 6 months calling everyone in a 3 state area when I learned that he was being discharged from wilderness camp for non-progress. </p><p></p><p>I hardly did any work at all during that time and just stayed on the phone all day calling anywhere I thought could help and took numbers from them as they gave me numbers that they thought could help. Finally I got a tip about a court case that was filed years ago in NC called Willie M for kids who were falling through the cracks. I looked it up online and it sounded exactly like what I needed. I couldnt get anyone here at the local agency to return my calls so I simply called the state level and laid some interesting accusations which really got me noticed. I also got Cory into the program within a few weeks. </p><p></p><p>We had mostly good caseworkers from the time he got into that program. Actually from the time he entered that program he had the same case manager until he left it at 17. I believe he may have had 2 therapists because one left for private practice. One psychiatrist until I took him out to go to a private psychiatrist after he got out of the state hospital at 16. Yes we had to jump through their hoops because we simply couldnt get him placed into a locked facility which was what he needed to begin with until he had failed time and again in regular group homes. He failed I cannot even remember how many group homes he ran from. It was a joke. Most were fine places...few not so good...but mostly fine. Cory just didnt want to be there. </p><p></p><p>When he was small...from 4 until he left for wilderness at 11, he had excellent therapists. They tried their damnedest to figure him out. That was before early onset bipolar was even known down here. Everyone kept telling me...he acts hyper and he lacks focus but there is just something else there. medicine made him slow down and his handwriting was better but his behavior wasnt any better. We got every service they could throw at us. If it took a village to raise a child, we had an entire city. From the time Cory was 9 until he quit school in his second year of 9th grade, he had an aide with him in school who stayed with him 8 hours a day. They turned themselves inside out to invent programs to attempt to help him. The only thing they couldnt do was invent a school that would reach him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 565066, member: 1514"] I dont know if it was the timing of when I was searching for help with Cory but I tend not to think so because it took me a long time to find the support I finally managed to get. I know I spent the better part of at least 6 months calling everyone in a 3 state area when I learned that he was being discharged from wilderness camp for non-progress. I hardly did any work at all during that time and just stayed on the phone all day calling anywhere I thought could help and took numbers from them as they gave me numbers that they thought could help. Finally I got a tip about a court case that was filed years ago in NC called Willie M for kids who were falling through the cracks. I looked it up online and it sounded exactly like what I needed. I couldnt get anyone here at the local agency to return my calls so I simply called the state level and laid some interesting accusations which really got me noticed. I also got Cory into the program within a few weeks. We had mostly good caseworkers from the time he got into that program. Actually from the time he entered that program he had the same case manager until he left it at 17. I believe he may have had 2 therapists because one left for private practice. One psychiatrist until I took him out to go to a private psychiatrist after he got out of the state hospital at 16. Yes we had to jump through their hoops because we simply couldnt get him placed into a locked facility which was what he needed to begin with until he had failed time and again in regular group homes. He failed I cannot even remember how many group homes he ran from. It was a joke. Most were fine places...few not so good...but mostly fine. Cory just didnt want to be there. When he was small...from 4 until he left for wilderness at 11, he had excellent therapists. They tried their damnedest to figure him out. That was before early onset bipolar was even known down here. Everyone kept telling me...he acts hyper and he lacks focus but there is just something else there. medicine made him slow down and his handwriting was better but his behavior wasnt any better. We got every service they could throw at us. If it took a village to raise a child, we had an entire city. From the time Cory was 9 until he quit school in his second year of 9th grade, he had an aide with him in school who stayed with him 8 hours a day. They turned themselves inside out to invent programs to attempt to help him. The only thing they couldnt do was invent a school that would reach him. [/QUOTE]
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