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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 569266" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Well I know for a fact that things have gone downhill here in NC. They have closed down a lot of the group homes due to budget cuts and something called "community level services". That's double talk for "we dont want to spend the money on taking care of your kid in out of home placements so we will shuffle them all back to their home settings and let someone else deal with it". </p><p></p><p>There used to be either 4 or 5 levels of residential placements. I think 1 was simply going to mental health for therapy, 2 was having an aide, 3 was at a group home that was community based but was like a home and the child went to a local school, 4 was a locked facility with the school on campus and 5 may have been juvenile detention. Cory spent most of his time as a teen running between levels 2-3 and finally ended up in 4. I begged them to start with 4 but you had to climb the ladder. His case manager had to keep presenting his case before some panel in order to attempt to get him placements.</p><p></p><p>Now I have seen the paperwork where they have been sending all the kids home who were in these level 3 group homes back into community support. The level 4 locked facility Cory was in has been closed and is now being leased to the City of Raleigh for some sort of housing I believe. It was the state mental health hospital and is straight across the street from the prison. Who wants to live there? LOL I mean it was a nice place for a hospital. Lush green lawns and it had several buildings....one for young kids, elderly, adults, forensics, teens, and then the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) which had a pool, school and basketball court. But why close it? We needed it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 569266, member: 1514"] Well I know for a fact that things have gone downhill here in NC. They have closed down a lot of the group homes due to budget cuts and something called "community level services". That's double talk for "we dont want to spend the money on taking care of your kid in out of home placements so we will shuffle them all back to their home settings and let someone else deal with it". There used to be either 4 or 5 levels of residential placements. I think 1 was simply going to mental health for therapy, 2 was having an aide, 3 was at a group home that was community based but was like a home and the child went to a local school, 4 was a locked facility with the school on campus and 5 may have been juvenile detention. Cory spent most of his time as a teen running between levels 2-3 and finally ended up in 4. I begged them to start with 4 but you had to climb the ladder. His case manager had to keep presenting his case before some panel in order to attempt to get him placements. Now I have seen the paperwork where they have been sending all the kids home who were in these level 3 group homes back into community support. The level 4 locked facility Cory was in has been closed and is now being leased to the City of Raleigh for some sort of housing I believe. It was the state mental health hospital and is straight across the street from the prison. Who wants to live there? LOL I mean it was a nice place for a hospital. Lush green lawns and it had several buildings....one for young kids, elderly, adults, forensics, teens, and then the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) which had a pool, school and basketball court. But why close it? We needed it. [/QUOTE]
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