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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 238960" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>K...</p><p></p><p>I am going to have to write a sermon here and I dont know if I am going to make much sense...lol. </p><p></p><p>I agree with CinVa. Take what they give you now. I could have predicted that they would have reacted this way...they did it to me too. You have to work your way up through the ranks. Your son hasnt been out of the home in lower level placements and you are asking for the highest level of placement off the bat...they arent going to accept that without some sort of real urgent documented behavior.</p><p></p><p>They want to try community interventions first, then group homes or foster care, then Residential Treatment Center (RTC). And Residential Treatment Center (RTC) can be locked or unlocked. We went through all those.</p><p></p><p>Accept community and home interventions for now but ask them if a group home is available for him to access. That is less structured and sucurred than a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) but still has treatment as a goal. In home interventions shouldnt involve you to any great degree...they arent your interventions...they are difficult child's. These people should be working with your son...now they may be in your home or in the community but you dont have to be there. Cory's tech was with him for around 40 hours a week in the school and after school. I certainly wasnt with them at all times. I got along with most of these people but not all of them. He had quite a few of them over the years from ages 8 to 15...lol. </p><p></p><p>We worked the in home treatment until everyone was on the same page that he needed far more support than he was getting even with two parents, a hi risk tech, a case manager, a psychiatrist and a therapist on board. Not to mention his brothers and grandparents and all the staff that loved him at the centers he attended. We would go to meetings and find new group homes to take Cory. It wasnt easy because Cory adored us at home and would run from the group homes back home. I kept telling them he needed a locked facility but we couldnt get to that level of funding until we failed all level 2, 3, and 4 placements! Ticked me off as badly as you are ticked off now...lol. We finally got to that level about 3.5 years into the placement game. He did wilderness camp, group homes and finally Residential Treatment Center (RTC) at 16. Wilderness camp was from 11 to 12.5. Long time to fight for what we needed. </p><p></p><p>I started the fight for wilderness camp when he was 10. He went the month he turned 11.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 238960, member: 1514"] K... I am going to have to write a sermon here and I dont know if I am going to make much sense...lol. I agree with CinVa. Take what they give you now. I could have predicted that they would have reacted this way...they did it to me too. You have to work your way up through the ranks. Your son hasnt been out of the home in lower level placements and you are asking for the highest level of placement off the bat...they arent going to accept that without some sort of real urgent documented behavior. They want to try community interventions first, then group homes or foster care, then Residential Treatment Center (RTC). And Residential Treatment Center (RTC) can be locked or unlocked. We went through all those. Accept community and home interventions for now but ask them if a group home is available for him to access. That is less structured and sucurred than a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) but still has treatment as a goal. In home interventions shouldnt involve you to any great degree...they arent your interventions...they are difficult child's. These people should be working with your son...now they may be in your home or in the community but you dont have to be there. Cory's tech was with him for around 40 hours a week in the school and after school. I certainly wasnt with them at all times. I got along with most of these people but not all of them. He had quite a few of them over the years from ages 8 to 15...lol. We worked the in home treatment until everyone was on the same page that he needed far more support than he was getting even with two parents, a hi risk tech, a case manager, a psychiatrist and a therapist on board. Not to mention his brothers and grandparents and all the staff that loved him at the centers he attended. We would go to meetings and find new group homes to take Cory. It wasnt easy because Cory adored us at home and would run from the group homes back home. I kept telling them he needed a locked facility but we couldnt get to that level of funding until we failed all level 2, 3, and 4 placements! Ticked me off as badly as you are ticked off now...lol. We finally got to that level about 3.5 years into the placement game. He did wilderness camp, group homes and finally Residential Treatment Center (RTC) at 16. Wilderness camp was from 11 to 12.5. Long time to fight for what we needed. I started the fight for wilderness camp when he was 10. He went the month he turned 11. [/QUOTE]
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