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Kanga's over the edge even for the other youth
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<blockquote data-quote="JJJ" data-source="post: 359960" data-attributes="member: 1169"><p>We expect a lot more drama to come. At the beginning we only allowed her to call home twice a week and visited once a month. Then we were pressured to increase contact so we eventually went to daily phone calls and a visti every two weeks. We drag our feet as much as we can on sibling visits but there are times where we have to allow her another chance. These people control our funding so we are at their mercy to a point. When Kanga screws up, they do back me in suspending sibling visits but after a while of good behavior, they pressure me to have them visit again. We had no sib visits in the first 10 months, then once a month for 5 months but when she growled at Piglet and threatened to hurt her, we stopped for 3 months, did 1 more (sort of, mostly she screamed and we spent almost the whole time in the crisis counselors office and husband played with the kids in the rec center), and she hasn't seen them since due to her very unstable behavior (7 months now). </p><p></p><p>We hope to start out on the right foot with the new Residential Treatment Center (RTC). We are planning to set the expectation of a visit every 3 weeks and no sibling visits. Her current case manager used to work for new Residential Treatment Center (RTC) (and may be going back there at the end of summer). She promised me that she spoke to all the right people and told them that it was very dangerous for them to push for home visits - even just daytime ones. She told them that Kanga's goal should not be considered return home but "transition to adult services". But, legally, her goal on the paperwork has to stay 'return home' and they'll just keep pushing the discharge date back as she 'fails to meet goals'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JJJ, post: 359960, member: 1169"] We expect a lot more drama to come. At the beginning we only allowed her to call home twice a week and visited once a month. Then we were pressured to increase contact so we eventually went to daily phone calls and a visti every two weeks. We drag our feet as much as we can on sibling visits but there are times where we have to allow her another chance. These people control our funding so we are at their mercy to a point. When Kanga screws up, they do back me in suspending sibling visits but after a while of good behavior, they pressure me to have them visit again. We had no sib visits in the first 10 months, then once a month for 5 months but when she growled at Piglet and threatened to hurt her, we stopped for 3 months, did 1 more (sort of, mostly she screamed and we spent almost the whole time in the crisis counselors office and husband played with the kids in the rec center), and she hasn't seen them since due to her very unstable behavior (7 months now). We hope to start out on the right foot with the new Residential Treatment Center (RTC). We are planning to set the expectation of a visit every 3 weeks and no sibling visits. Her current case manager used to work for new Residential Treatment Center (RTC) (and may be going back there at the end of summer). She promised me that she spoke to all the right people and told them that it was very dangerous for them to push for home visits - even just daytime ones. She told them that Kanga's goal should not be considered return home but "transition to adult services". But, legally, her goal on the paperwork has to stay 'return home' and they'll just keep pushing the discharge date back as she 'fails to meet goals'. [/QUOTE]
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