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<blockquote data-quote="Marcie Mac" data-source="post: 239257" data-attributes="member: 47"><p>Kimmo, I have been following your saga - Its been a while since I had to deal with the courts and difficult child's behavior and am so sad to see that nothing has really changed in the system. I did ask the court 2nd time we were before a judge for residential placement, had my letters from the psychiatric doctor, my Parent Report - handed those out like candy. </p><p> </p><p>If you ask for Residential here thru the court system, and I got it on my first request, they sit in Juvy till one is found. Well, not really found, more like getting a job - Dan was interviewed by numerous places and the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is the one that selects whether or not they think they will end up with a success story. The problem with the legal system placing in a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is that it is always punitive based, in my humble opinion, with mental health issues comming in second. Dans medications were hit and miss at best, school consisted of everyone in a room and given grade appropriate packets. A PO was assigned to him - no one had any idea of who it was cause he/she never showed. I complained and they did assign someone who didn't believe in Mental Health problems, and one melt down he was sent to Boot Camp. Because he had to "learn" to overcome his impulse control and medications had nothing to do with anything.</p><p> </p><p>When he was released, I lucked out as his new PO was very savy when it came to mental health issues. She said unfortunately, the courts only deal from a punitive side and give little acknowledgement to the mental health side of things, and had no hope it would be changing anytime soon - from your story, apparently she was right.</p><p> </p><p>Marcie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcie Mac, post: 239257, member: 47"] Kimmo, I have been following your saga - Its been a while since I had to deal with the courts and difficult child's behavior and am so sad to see that nothing has really changed in the system. I did ask the court 2nd time we were before a judge for residential placement, had my letters from the psychiatric doctor, my Parent Report - handed those out like candy. If you ask for Residential here thru the court system, and I got it on my first request, they sit in Juvy till one is found. Well, not really found, more like getting a job - Dan was interviewed by numerous places and the Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is the one that selects whether or not they think they will end up with a success story. The problem with the legal system placing in a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) is that it is always punitive based, in my humble opinion, with mental health issues comming in second. Dans medications were hit and miss at best, school consisted of everyone in a room and given grade appropriate packets. A PO was assigned to him - no one had any idea of who it was cause he/she never showed. I complained and they did assign someone who didn't believe in Mental Health problems, and one melt down he was sent to Boot Camp. Because he had to "learn" to overcome his impulse control and medications had nothing to do with anything. When he was released, I lucked out as his new PO was very savy when it came to mental health issues. She said unfortunately, the courts only deal from a punitive side and give little acknowledgement to the mental health side of things, and had no hope it would be changing anytime soon - from your story, apparently she was right. Marcie [/QUOTE]
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