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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 404183" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>They'll never pay for difficult child to go to a group home. I learn a tad bit more about this stupid state and hhow they handle this juvie stuff every time difficult child is in the revolving door. The latest assessment is this- a judge or jurisdiction where the offense was committed can do these things: send kid back to parent on parole, turn kid over to dss but currently in this state dss can only send a kid somewhere like therapuetic foster home, Residential Treatment Center (RTC), or group home IF there is NO extended family member willing to take the kid. (My bro has that option blown and that's why options have been so limited.), or send kid to Department of Juvenile Justice group home. This state's Department of Juvenile Justice will only do that IF the other two options fail or can't be made to work. Plus, the past two years they have closed all group homes funded by Department of Juvenile Justice and only have 2 left. They are for boys at a min of 16 1/2 yo. They have a back load and waiting list to get in and they've already tightened the criteria to boys who were violent offenders, have unfit families, and are refused by dss. Therefore, these particualr group homes have the worst of the worst in them, supposedly. But it doesn't matter because they will first use courts to try to force me to take difficult child, then send difficult child to dss/my bro rather than leave him sitting in Department of Juvenile Justice on the waiting list for one of those 2 group homes. I figure any way I look at it, difficult child will have another round with the revolving door. Department of Juvenile Justice is all he knows as a teen at this point. If he does anything more extreme next time, they'll probably try him as an adult. Then, he'll still be sent to a juvy facility until he's 18, then be out by 21 yo, still knowing nothing but the system. They have NO flippin' program for boys his age to "earn" their total freedom back, or earn the right to move back into a regular family home. It's "unlock the door, and send them home on parole". Honestly, what idiot thinks seeing and talking to difficult child and me 15 mins every 2 or 4 weeks will prevent re-offending? How much money are taxpayers contributing to juvy PO's salaries? How many programs could be established that might actually benefit some of them if they weren't spending the money on these newbie POs? How many kids' lives are going down the tubes because there best chance for rehabilitation counldn't be funded?</p><p></p><p>In the second sentnece, where I listed option of "offending jurisdiction" meaning the jurisdiction the offense was committed in- that is because even though I have moved, it is still up to that jurisdiction to determine where they want difficult child sent upon his release from incarceration. The options I listed are the options of the judge there, who'll sign off on whatever GAL, PO, etc, recommend. I moved to this jurisdiction hoping beyond hope that once difficult child's file was transferred here, we'd have better options. We don't. His file is transferred because I moved and the plan was for him to return home. If I refuse to let him or if they determine I'm traveling too much or whatever, they send the file back to the original jurisdiction for them to re-evaluate where to place difficult child upon release. He'd surely go to dss/my bro. I've already been told that. The only chance would be for bro to refuse and he will never do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 404183, member: 3699"] They'll never pay for difficult child to go to a group home. I learn a tad bit more about this stupid state and hhow they handle this juvie stuff every time difficult child is in the revolving door. The latest assessment is this- a judge or jurisdiction where the offense was committed can do these things: send kid back to parent on parole, turn kid over to dss but currently in this state dss can only send a kid somewhere like therapuetic foster home, Residential Treatment Center (RTC), or group home IF there is NO extended family member willing to take the kid. (My bro has that option blown and that's why options have been so limited.), or send kid to Department of Juvenile Justice group home. This state's Department of Juvenile Justice will only do that IF the other two options fail or can't be made to work. Plus, the past two years they have closed all group homes funded by Department of Juvenile Justice and only have 2 left. They are for boys at a min of 16 1/2 yo. They have a back load and waiting list to get in and they've already tightened the criteria to boys who were violent offenders, have unfit families, and are refused by dss. Therefore, these particualr group homes have the worst of the worst in them, supposedly. But it doesn't matter because they will first use courts to try to force me to take difficult child, then send difficult child to dss/my bro rather than leave him sitting in Department of Juvenile Justice on the waiting list for one of those 2 group homes. I figure any way I look at it, difficult child will have another round with the revolving door. Department of Juvenile Justice is all he knows as a teen at this point. If he does anything more extreme next time, they'll probably try him as an adult. Then, he'll still be sent to a juvy facility until he's 18, then be out by 21 yo, still knowing nothing but the system. They have NO flippin' program for boys his age to "earn" their total freedom back, or earn the right to move back into a regular family home. It's "unlock the door, and send them home on parole". Honestly, what idiot thinks seeing and talking to difficult child and me 15 mins every 2 or 4 weeks will prevent re-offending? How much money are taxpayers contributing to juvy PO's salaries? How many programs could be established that might actually benefit some of them if they weren't spending the money on these newbie POs? How many kids' lives are going down the tubes because there best chance for rehabilitation counldn't be funded? In the second sentnece, where I listed option of "offending jurisdiction" meaning the jurisdiction the offense was committed in- that is because even though I have moved, it is still up to that jurisdiction to determine where they want difficult child sent upon his release from incarceration. The options I listed are the options of the judge there, who'll sign off on whatever GAL, PO, etc, recommend. I moved to this jurisdiction hoping beyond hope that once difficult child's file was transferred here, we'd have better options. We don't. His file is transferred because I moved and the plan was for him to return home. If I refuse to let him or if they determine I'm traveling too much or whatever, they send the file back to the original jurisdiction for them to re-evaluate where to place difficult child upon release. He'd surely go to dss/my bro. I've already been told that. The only chance would be for bro to refuse and he will never do that. [/QUOTE]
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