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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 356637" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I would be extremely leery of any program outside of the US. For the reasons mentioned above and because you would have no clue what kind of problems the other kids would have. Programs in the US will likely have kids with fairly similar ranges of problems. Outside the US you wouldn't know if that was the case, and they could tell you anything. It would be almost impossible to verify. The chances that you would end up with an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) that did what the one grouphome that Star's difficult child was in did could be very high. You may or may not remember - on days parents/supervisors were to be there the owner hired people to come in and say they were the house parents, tdocs, etc... while in reality her son was miles outside the nearest town with some other kids his age and older, little to no food, no way to get into town or to school, etc... It was a horrible place and took awhile before she could get him moved. </p><p></p><p>I would be afraid of that, and of the fact that she would be in a country where she didn't speak the language (?), didn't know the culture, and might not be able to get help if she had to walk to the nearest town for it. Also you don't know what the legal system there will do with various difficult child behaviors. She might do the kinds of difficult child things that end up with charges being pressed and then having to deal with a legal system where she may have few or no rights and where you might or might not be able to even visit if that happened.</p><p></p><p>I would push for placements in the US or maybe Canada.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 356637, member: 1233"] I would be extremely leery of any program outside of the US. For the reasons mentioned above and because you would have no clue what kind of problems the other kids would have. Programs in the US will likely have kids with fairly similar ranges of problems. Outside the US you wouldn't know if that was the case, and they could tell you anything. It would be almost impossible to verify. The chances that you would end up with an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) that did what the one grouphome that Star's difficult child was in did could be very high. You may or may not remember - on days parents/supervisors were to be there the owner hired people to come in and say they were the house parents, tdocs, etc... while in reality her son was miles outside the nearest town with some other kids his age and older, little to no food, no way to get into town or to school, etc... It was a horrible place and took awhile before she could get him moved. I would be afraid of that, and of the fact that she would be in a country where she didn't speak the language (?), didn't know the culture, and might not be able to get help if she had to walk to the nearest town for it. Also you don't know what the legal system there will do with various difficult child behaviors. She might do the kinds of difficult child things that end up with charges being pressed and then having to deal with a legal system where she may have few or no rights and where you might or might not be able to even visit if that happened. I would push for placements in the US or maybe Canada. [/QUOTE]
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