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<blockquote data-quote="timer lady" data-source="post: 337695" data-attributes="member: 393"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Hi & welcome Emily.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">My son, wm, is currently & has been since 2006, in a therapeutic group foster home. I have nothing but good things to say about this home & how wm is doing there.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Saying that, wm is severe AD with complex PTSD & bipolar. We're dealing (possibly?) with a whole different set of diagnosis's & treatments needed.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I would recommend & in fact I demanded that I see the home first - interview the foster parents & any other staff that may work there. (We were darned lucky - the group home wm is in now - the parents there have been doing this for 40 years now; have a great staff to work with the children & have been named foster parents of the year for the entire state 5 years in a row. I digress - sorry.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Ask for the crisis plan, how many staffings are done & who will attend the staffing (we have quarterly staffings). Who will be involved with therapy - same psychiatrist?, same therapist? etc. Any question you need answered you ask. As for consequences be sure you get from the foster parents what they utilize as a consequence. Get the state guidelines.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Saying all this, this is not unlike a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) except it's more relaxed in it's setting & there are more freedoms. There should be a county SW, a mental health care manager, a foster SW (licensee representative) plus any other treatment staff involved. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">If difficult child rages & starts being destructive or runs, what will this home do? If the answer is anything other call 911 for transport of a mentally ill adolescent I would be hesitant.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">There should never be limits on visitation - ever. Never use visits/non visits as a consequence. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Will difficult child be going to the same school? If not what school district? I would expect he would be attending a transitional school high school given his age.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">I hope this helps to some degree. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timer lady, post: 337695, member: 393"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Hi & welcome Emily. My son, wm, is currently & has been since 2006, in a therapeutic group foster home. I have nothing but good things to say about this home & how wm is doing there. Saying that, wm is severe AD with complex PTSD & bipolar. We're dealing (possibly?) with a whole different set of diagnosis's & treatments needed. I would recommend & in fact I demanded that I see the home first - interview the foster parents & any other staff that may work there. (We were darned lucky - the group home wm is in now - the parents there have been doing this for 40 years now; have a great staff to work with the children & have been named foster parents of the year for the entire state 5 years in a row. I digress - sorry.) Ask for the crisis plan, how many staffings are done & who will attend the staffing (we have quarterly staffings). Who will be involved with therapy - same psychiatrist?, same therapist? etc. Any question you need answered you ask. As for consequences be sure you get from the foster parents what they utilize as a consequence. Get the state guidelines. Saying all this, this is not unlike a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) except it's more relaxed in it's setting & there are more freedoms. There should be a county SW, a mental health care manager, a foster SW (licensee representative) plus any other treatment staff involved. If difficult child rages & starts being destructive or runs, what will this home do? If the answer is anything other call 911 for transport of a mentally ill adolescent I would be hesitant. There should never be limits on visitation - ever. Never use visits/non visits as a consequence. Will difficult child be going to the same school? If not what school district? I would expect he would be attending a transitional school high school given his age. I hope this helps to some degree. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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