Ok- but the only thing I can say that shows how urgent and critical this is, is to tell them he has damaged our house, can't make it to school half the time and held a knife at my throat in one hand while swinging his arm back with another knife in the other hand, while my back was against the wall. Do you have any idea how this PO, and even the judge would react to that?
Also, When you tried the in-home services, did the therapist start out with the pretense that it's a family trying to deal with BiPolar (BP) stabilization or did he/she start on the pretense that if the family was structured enough, or whatever, that the problems wouldn't be there?