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<blockquote data-quote="exhausted" data-source="post: 408209" data-attributes="member: 11001"><p>Just talked to my daughter and she tells me that she will be allowed to go back to a public school and ride the transit system to school and group therapy. No one has called me and included me on this decision, despite being told that I was part of the team. The recommendation from the observation and assessment team was that she was a danger to herself and needed to be in a more restrictive envirnment. If she could go to public school and ride the bus and actually show up to school, not go looking for pot or to sexually act out, we would not be in this desperate attempt to get help. Hasn't anyone bothered to read her records? Don't they know she has PTSD and isn't at this point able to keep herself from really scary situations? Don't they know we spent unbelievable amounts of money on Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and therapy(all be it the wrong treatment)? Of course this is EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTS-but since when do mentally ill 16 year olds get to choose their treatment once they have been court ordered and assessed? I can't even express my distress and unbelief. Can the system be so screwed up? The angel on my difficult children shoulder, that has kept her alive, must be exhausted. When will it disappear? I just had so much hope we would have access to the right kinds of therapy this way. Im praying that despite the holiday weekend, someone from DCFS will call me and tell me this is all her wishful thinking!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exhausted, post: 408209, member: 11001"] Just talked to my daughter and she tells me that she will be allowed to go back to a public school and ride the transit system to school and group therapy. No one has called me and included me on this decision, despite being told that I was part of the team. The recommendation from the observation and assessment team was that she was a danger to herself and needed to be in a more restrictive envirnment. If she could go to public school and ride the bus and actually show up to school, not go looking for pot or to sexually act out, we would not be in this desperate attempt to get help. Hasn't anyone bothered to read her records? Don't they know she has PTSD and isn't at this point able to keep herself from really scary situations? Don't they know we spent unbelievable amounts of money on Residential Treatment Center (RTC) and therapy(all be it the wrong treatment)? Of course this is EXACTLY WHAT SHE WANTS-but since when do mentally ill 16 year olds get to choose their treatment once they have been court ordered and assessed? I can't even express my distress and unbelief. Can the system be so screwed up? The angel on my difficult children shoulder, that has kept her alive, must be exhausted. When will it disappear? I just had so much hope we would have access to the right kinds of therapy this way. Im praying that despite the holiday weekend, someone from DCFS will call me and tell me this is all her wishful thinking! [/QUOTE]
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