That was actually the first place I called about 2 years ago. Unfortunately their program for teens is horrifically expensive. $2,000/month!!!! The do not offer any type of assistance.
I agree, but Medicaid won't cover Residential Treatment Center (RTC). They won't take him anyway because they say they he has a substance abuse issue not a mental health/behavioral issue. Ummm.... He has both! And the department of MH actually classifies substance abuse AS a mental health issue!!!! It's like talking in circles with these people sometimes.
We actually experienced that with my life long alcoholic father just before thanksgiving. He was sober for less than 12 hours because he finally got a job, had a seizure and almost died. Spent 5 weeks in the hospital. Sober almost 5 months, for the first time in 40 years!!!
Exactly!!! I am a good mom. Regardless of what he says or how he acts. (Can you tell that I have to reaffirm myself often these days?)
I have an entire file folder. It's so sad, I used to collect his report cards, essays, poetry and awards. Now I collect his police records, discipline records, MH evaluations. How did my son get so lost???
This is where it gets tricky for me. Having to be strong with alcoholic father and husband, this is nothing new in my world. Except they were grown men. If my husband was drunk or high be couldn't be at home. Sometimes that meant sleeping in his truck, being hungry and dirty. But he could not be around us like that. I had to kick him out of our home for extended amounts of time. He didn't want treatment and I didn't want to be a victim. Since my son is still a minor I am somewhat forced into it. Regardless of his state of sobriety or intoxication I have to allow him in my home. Angry, violent, disrespectful, stealing, lying... all of, to an extent, I have to put up with. His bad choices seem to effect everyone else in our home far more than they do him. The law says I have to provide 3 hots and a cot. That is about all I have to offer him when he returns home from behavioral health's acute care next week. When he is an adult, I will step out of his way. At this point I must somehow continue to parent him. If not for his own benefit, then for his younger siblings who are seeing their brother disregard rules and consequences. I can't go down this path with the next 3 also!
Thank you all for your information, but most importantly your encouragement.
