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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 542238" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I need to read up on the back story of why your daughter is in a placement but my son had such a rotation in and out of my house into group homes during his teen years we kept his clothing in a hefty bag and should have installed one of those rotating doors on the front of the house...lol. I dont think he ever stayed home more than a month or two at the most before I was calling his case manager to find him another group home. </p><p></p><p>You get such conflicting info from therapists because there is no one set cure-all for these kids or we would all have perfect angels by now. If we all knew to do X, then Y and implement Z...well then we would have all done it by now! I always said if they had told me to go dunk myself in a 55 gallon drum of horse dung and that would cure my son, I would have jumped in happily. </p><p></p><p>I am assuming that your son was in someway violent for you to get him into a therapeutic foster care setting. Those can actually be a good placement if they have good training. If you cant get whoever sent him there to extend his stay, I would go to the juvenile courts and ask them for help with a CHINS petition. That means a Child in Need of Protection. That should get you some help with locating services that might help you. Does your son get Medicaid by any chance? If he does, that can open doors that other insurance cant open. Depending on how long he has been out of your home at this point, he may be eligible now. At the point of 60 days, he becomes eligible based on only his own income and not your family income unless he comes back to you. Medicaid would open doors to group homes, Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s, and psychiatric residential treatment facilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 542238, member: 1514"] I need to read up on the back story of why your daughter is in a placement but my son had such a rotation in and out of my house into group homes during his teen years we kept his clothing in a hefty bag and should have installed one of those rotating doors on the front of the house...lol. I dont think he ever stayed home more than a month or two at the most before I was calling his case manager to find him another group home. You get such conflicting info from therapists because there is no one set cure-all for these kids or we would all have perfect angels by now. If we all knew to do X, then Y and implement Z...well then we would have all done it by now! I always said if they had told me to go dunk myself in a 55 gallon drum of horse dung and that would cure my son, I would have jumped in happily. I am assuming that your son was in someway violent for you to get him into a therapeutic foster care setting. Those can actually be a good placement if they have good training. If you cant get whoever sent him there to extend his stay, I would go to the juvenile courts and ask them for help with a CHINS petition. That means a Child in Need of Protection. That should get you some help with locating services that might help you. Does your son get Medicaid by any chance? If he does, that can open doors that other insurance cant open. Depending on how long he has been out of your home at this point, he may be eligible now. At the point of 60 days, he becomes eligible based on only his own income and not your family income unless he comes back to you. Medicaid would open doors to group homes, Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s, and psychiatric residential treatment facilities. [/QUOTE]
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