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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 332698" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Residential Treatment Center (RTC) isn't really an option in Australia. We do have residential treatment facilities but they are for adults, are drug/alcohol rehab mostly. There are the occasional teen drug rehab centres. Otherwise - it's boarding school. Or psychiatric ward in a hospital, and I've not had to deal with that.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure about the cost of rehab. I do know of one recent big news story of a church-based place which was a sort of Residential Treatment Center (RTC) (from what I gather). It paid for itself by getting the inmates onto disability and then getting them to sign over their disability in full to the centre, as payment. The treatment was called into question when a number of inmates (various isolated cases) either suicided, attempted to suicide or became much worse. Other questions have been asked about that church organisation but they always manage to find legal loopholes to avoid the scrutiny. At least as a church. the centres have been closed down, I believe, because they didn't pass scrutiny. Or wouldn't.</p><p></p><p>As for us - we would never consider it for difficult child 3, never would have for the other kids. We don't have access to anything like you people have described. We have been offered respite but chose to refuse, on the grounds that difficult child 3 does a lot better with people he knows, and who know him. It simply would have been too big a problem trying to set it up, not worth the problems - for us. I've happily recommended respite for others, though.</p><p></p><p>We do have a therapeutic foster system - a kid we know is in there, probably permanently. His mother is the best, most caring, most conscientious. But she can't watch him 24/7 and it was wearing her out. He's a PWS kid who was self-harming badly in his desperation to get food.</p><p></p><p>For us, boarding school costs big bucks. I think treatment facilities otherwise get paid partly through our health care system and partly through contributions set at a level where the inmates themselves can pay, based on their own welfare payments. They also get public donations.</p><p>But if you were coming in from overseas, it would be private fees and probably much the same costs as the US centres.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 332698, member: 1991"] Residential Treatment Center (RTC) isn't really an option in Australia. We do have residential treatment facilities but they are for adults, are drug/alcohol rehab mostly. There are the occasional teen drug rehab centres. Otherwise - it's boarding school. Or psychiatric ward in a hospital, and I've not had to deal with that. I'm not sure about the cost of rehab. I do know of one recent big news story of a church-based place which was a sort of Residential Treatment Center (RTC) (from what I gather). It paid for itself by getting the inmates onto disability and then getting them to sign over their disability in full to the centre, as payment. The treatment was called into question when a number of inmates (various isolated cases) either suicided, attempted to suicide or became much worse. Other questions have been asked about that church organisation but they always manage to find legal loopholes to avoid the scrutiny. At least as a church. the centres have been closed down, I believe, because they didn't pass scrutiny. Or wouldn't. As for us - we would never consider it for difficult child 3, never would have for the other kids. We don't have access to anything like you people have described. We have been offered respite but chose to refuse, on the grounds that difficult child 3 does a lot better with people he knows, and who know him. It simply would have been too big a problem trying to set it up, not worth the problems - for us. I've happily recommended respite for others, though. We do have a therapeutic foster system - a kid we know is in there, probably permanently. His mother is the best, most caring, most conscientious. But she can't watch him 24/7 and it was wearing her out. He's a PWS kid who was self-harming badly in his desperation to get food. For us, boarding school costs big bucks. I think treatment facilities otherwise get paid partly through our health care system and partly through contributions set at a level where the inmates themselves can pay, based on their own welfare payments. They also get public donations. But if you were coming in from overseas, it would be private fees and probably much the same costs as the US centres. Marg [/QUOTE]
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