As you recall, we want to get our difficult child into an Residential Treatment Center (RTC)....we are battling a funding issue as any referring agency is required to pay 30% of the cost of the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) placement...and so our psychiatric hospital and county mental health agency are simply NOT doing referrals.
difficult child's therapist let us know about an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) that would accept a parent referral for placement and charges are on a sliding scale. We had to complete a very lengthy application and forward all available records for difficult child. We put a great big fat packet in the mail before Thanksgiving...and waited.
TODAY--we get a rejection letter. We thought we might be rejected based upon funding, or space or waiting lists--but NO!!!!
difficult child has been rejected from the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) because (and I quote):
"[Our program cannot] meet the level of care required for [difficult child]. [We recommend] the services of a high-management program that can provide more.....one on one supervision."
So....our county mental health facility feel no referral is necessary, the psychiatric hospital feels nothing more is necessary...and yet this Residential Treatment Center (RTC) program feels that difficult child needs MORE SUPERVISION THAN THEY CAN PROVIDE!!!!
No wonder husband and I are absolutely exhausted!!!
Do you think there is a way that I can use this 'rejection letter' to get a referral to a different facility?
What do you think?
--DaisyFace
difficult child's therapist let us know about an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) that would accept a parent referral for placement and charges are on a sliding scale. We had to complete a very lengthy application and forward all available records for difficult child. We put a great big fat packet in the mail before Thanksgiving...and waited.
TODAY--we get a rejection letter. We thought we might be rejected based upon funding, or space or waiting lists--but NO!!!!
difficult child has been rejected from the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) because (and I quote):
"[Our program cannot] meet the level of care required for [difficult child]. [We recommend] the services of a high-management program that can provide more.....one on one supervision."
So....our county mental health facility feel no referral is necessary, the psychiatric hospital feels nothing more is necessary...and yet this Residential Treatment Center (RTC) program feels that difficult child needs MORE SUPERVISION THAN THEY CAN PROVIDE!!!!
No wonder husband and I are absolutely exhausted!!!
Do you think there is a way that I can use this 'rejection letter' to get a referral to a different facility?
What do you think?
--DaisyFace