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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 575221" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>My Youngest spent 4 months in an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) prior to her senior year of high school. It was funded by Social Services, but only after a year of multiple meetings with a county inter-discplinary team, a stint of alternate placement at a therapeutic day school that failed, three manipulative suicide attempts (overdoses), and my threatening (actually got as far as filing) to relinquish custody to DSS just to get funding. They finally agreed to pay under a temporary agreement if I withdrew my petition, which I did. I don't recommend that last step necessarily, it was just the last thing I tried in order to get her help, and in my county it happened to work. It doesn't always, though, and it was a long road to get there. </p><p></p><p>Did it work/make her better? Short-term, yes. It stopped the suicde attempts and kept her in a safe place for 4 months, and taught her some coping skills. Did it immediately cure her? No. A couple weeks after she got out, on her first day of senior year (in a new therapeutic day school), she was caught smoking pot in the parking lot, and started skipping school. Five months later, when she turned 18, she dropped out of school -- and a few months after that she was pregnant. </p><p></p><p>I don't regret her going one bit, I think it saved her life (and my sanity!) I also think that all these years later, she's learned to use some of the coping and conflict resolution skills she learned there, so that's a very good thing. She's been through some rocky stuff the past several years but is doing pretty well right now, she's grown up a LOT and actually takes her medications now. I just think parents need to be realistic about it - and not expect it to be an immediate "magic bullet." It's a tool, and a good one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 575221, member: 1157"] My Youngest spent 4 months in an Residential Treatment Center (RTC) prior to her senior year of high school. It was funded by Social Services, but only after a year of multiple meetings with a county inter-discplinary team, a stint of alternate placement at a therapeutic day school that failed, three manipulative suicide attempts (overdoses), and my threatening (actually got as far as filing) to relinquish custody to DSS just to get funding. They finally agreed to pay under a temporary agreement if I withdrew my petition, which I did. I don't recommend that last step necessarily, it was just the last thing I tried in order to get her help, and in my county it happened to work. It doesn't always, though, and it was a long road to get there. Did it work/make her better? Short-term, yes. It stopped the suicde attempts and kept her in a safe place for 4 months, and taught her some coping skills. Did it immediately cure her? No. A couple weeks after she got out, on her first day of senior year (in a new therapeutic day school), she was caught smoking pot in the parking lot, and started skipping school. Five months later, when she turned 18, she dropped out of school -- and a few months after that she was pregnant. I don't regret her going one bit, I think it saved her life (and my sanity!) I also think that all these years later, she's learned to use some of the coping and conflict resolution skills she learned there, so that's a very good thing. She's been through some rocky stuff the past several years but is doing pretty well right now, she's grown up a LOT and actually takes her medications now. I just think parents need to be realistic about it - and not expect it to be an immediate "magic bullet." It's a tool, and a good one. [/QUOTE]
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