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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 400868" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>JJJ - just being a devil's advocate here. Do you think Kanga will continue on in Residential Treatment Center (RTC) once she hits 18? Will she be able to graduate by then? Do you think she will be receptive to receiving community services through DMH (assuming there will still be services offered by then)? Or is she simply going to walk out and go... where? You know how I feel about the options for group homes around here. My understanding is her Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s group homes are as good as they get. You know where she absolutely *cannot* go, LOL. </p><p></p><p>thank you was about Kanga's age when I got pretty insistent about stopping the regurgitation of "family issues" and getting on with- it already. Family "reunification" was not an option and it was time to look beyond any alleged family issues and focus on getting him in a position to be functional in the community when he hit 18. </p><p></p><p>I absolutely understand not wanting her in a group home setting, really, I do. But I think at some point in the very near future, it's going to be time to make the transition. thank you bombed horrifically, you know that. But now 2 years down the road, the one thing TLP did do was give him the opportunity to establish relationships within his community. No, they weren't the healthiest or safest relationships, but they were the only ones he had ever formed outside of the family and while I think they exposed him to some unsafe situations, at the same time he had a safety net in a really messed up dysfunctional way. Does that make sense?</p><p></p><p>I'm not trying to change your mind, but the day is fast approaching when Kanga will have the right to walk away from the program. I'm thinking that it will not be an option for her to return home - is it time to maybe remove family goals from her treatment plan and focus on more functional skills? What goals would you like to see her meet, forgetting about family relationship stuff, before she moves on to a group home? </p><p></p><p>Again, just being a devil's advocate. I found it really hard to let go of the "client will engage in appropriate interactions with parent" goal, but at some point it just became a moot point in the grand scheme of thank you's life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 400868, member: 8"] JJJ - just being a devil's advocate here. Do you think Kanga will continue on in Residential Treatment Center (RTC) once she hits 18? Will she be able to graduate by then? Do you think she will be receptive to receiving community services through DMH (assuming there will still be services offered by then)? Or is she simply going to walk out and go... where? You know how I feel about the options for group homes around here. My understanding is her Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s group homes are as good as they get. You know where she absolutely *cannot* go, LOL. thank you was about Kanga's age when I got pretty insistent about stopping the regurgitation of "family issues" and getting on with- it already. Family "reunification" was not an option and it was time to look beyond any alleged family issues and focus on getting him in a position to be functional in the community when he hit 18. I absolutely understand not wanting her in a group home setting, really, I do. But I think at some point in the very near future, it's going to be time to make the transition. thank you bombed horrifically, you know that. But now 2 years down the road, the one thing TLP did do was give him the opportunity to establish relationships within his community. No, they weren't the healthiest or safest relationships, but they were the only ones he had ever formed outside of the family and while I think they exposed him to some unsafe situations, at the same time he had a safety net in a really messed up dysfunctional way. Does that make sense? I'm not trying to change your mind, but the day is fast approaching when Kanga will have the right to walk away from the program. I'm thinking that it will not be an option for her to return home - is it time to maybe remove family goals from her treatment plan and focus on more functional skills? What goals would you like to see her meet, forgetting about family relationship stuff, before she moves on to a group home? Again, just being a devil's advocate. I found it really hard to let go of the "client will engage in appropriate interactions with parent" goal, but at some point it just became a moot point in the grand scheme of thank you's life. [/QUOTE]
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