Question by Michelle: Trying to get a kid a IEP or placement for day treatment?
I am family advocate and am having trouble getting a mom help at her school, Her daughter has been DX with major depression, a few other things and it is was all caused by a trauma she went thru… sexual abuse by a family member. she is having a very hard time in school, she was in the 80’s now in the 60’s and misses school because she has a hard time facing other people. she has dr’s saying she needs day treatment instead of goingto a regular school, all the support she would need are right there at day treatment. the school did an eval on her but said she is not qualified for special education, they put a 504 plan in place but it is not working that great and the young girl is having alot of difficulty. the school told the mom that if them mom disclosed what trauma the girl had suffered they would consider day treatment. mom does not feel the school has any business knowing what happen as long as they are aware she has suffered trauma and has all the diagnosis’s from her dr’s. mom and I are trying to get her an IEP under the catagory Emotional disturbances, which i feel she falls under, or other mental health but the school just wont do it. Any help or any advice????
I never said I was a special ed advocate 1st of all, I said I was a FAMILY ADVOCATE.. I advocate for the parents, I go to family court, go to CSE meeting to help support the parents. I do not agree that mom does not want to tell the school what her daughters trauma was, i am not in that place to tell them either I do know IDEA.. Wrights law and thats not what I was asking, I am fully aware of the evaluation process for an IEP or 504 plan, I am fully aware that even though mom did not agree with the eval done at the school she can request an IEE at the schools expence by provider that the mom chooses even if the school does not want that evaluator. I amd fulyl aware of child find and all the other special ed laws out there so before you say things know your facts so you dont look like an idiot. An FYI she went from 85’s to 60’s and the school still says they dont see a problem with that, I do!! pretty clear her mental state is effecting her learning it does not take a genius to

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Answer by CathyD
Keep pushing the school. And keep calling over heads who tell you no. I don’t believe the school needs yo know what the trauma is. You have Dr confirmation saying she has x issue and needs x treatment. The school has no business in her medical record more then you allow.

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Question by : Why do “drug rehab” cults continue to thrive despite their many documented cases of abuse?
Why do cults that follow the STRAIGHT INC model continue to exist? STRAIGHT finally got shut down in 1993 but not until HUNDREDS of cases of abuse became documented. Even so, many of the STRAIGHT clinics simply changed their names and continued to abuse the teens held captive there. Verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, sleep deprivation, forced separation from parents, kidnappings, and false imprisonment are just a few of the many crimes that all STRAIGHT based cults are charged with. Many have been shut down but why do they continue to exist??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight,_Incorporated

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Miller_Newton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Adolescent_Recovery_Centre

http://thestraights.com/

http://kidsofbergencounty.com/

http://thestraights.com/safesuit2001/index.htm (SAFE was located not too far from where I live in Orlando, Fl)

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Answer by The Ingenious Hidalgo DonQuixote
they give money to the right people

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Question by Titian: Why is there a higher rate of child abuse in foster homes than in the general population?
Children in foster care experience high rates of child abuse, emotional deprivation, and physical neglect. In one study in the United Kingdom “foster children were 7–8 times, and children in residential care 6 times more likely to be assessed by a pediatrician for abuse than a child in the general population”.[14] One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population.[15][16] An Indiana study found three times more physical abuse and twice the rate of sexual abuse in foster homes than in the general population.[16] A study of foster children in Oregon and Washington State found that nearly one third reported being abused by a foster parent or another adult in a foster home.[17] These statistics do not speak to the situation these children are coming from, but it does show the very large problem of child-on-child sexual abuse within the system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_care#Abuse_and_negligence

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Answer by frockney
First, the children who are in care sometimes come from families where they themselves may have been subjected to some form of bad treatment ranging from being left to their own devices when the parents (or single mom) is out or being emotionally or physically abuse or all of this at once.

This is not to say that all kids removed are justly removed.

Furthermore, the people doing foster care are people who want to adopt but cannot afford the huge sums asked for by agencies (starting from $ 30,000). They may have a lower level of education. They may be considering the child as the “third best option” after failing to conceive naturally and not having the money to adopt a womb-web baby from an agency.

However, this is not to say that they are not decent people.

Also psychology scholars have found that there is an instintive, physical “safety catch” that stops natural parents from hurting their offspring and having sex with them. Admitedly, this “safery catch” does not function with every one, but it is just not present in non-blood related foster parents.

So the combination of these three factors means that kids in care end up falling from the frying pan into the fire.

In the 60’s, children’s homes fell into (well deserved!) disrepute. Now, there are some new solutions where these institutions are better structured, better staffed, where child psychology is better understood. Children who have problems should not go to problem families.

All this is meant to save money. Money would be better saved on proper, and timely, sex education and free contraception.

@Sammy Gabbie:
I would never take on one or more foster kids. I help these kids by donating to institutions who employ fully qualified staff. I am not qualified to deal with temperamental children who right or wrong have been separated from their parents.

I prefer to concentrate on my lovely, pretty, intelligent daughters. Natural children also need looking after, so they don’t become foster kids in the first place.

@angel face
This question was posted in US, so what I wrote fits. Also, in UK, the SS is very heavy-handed and take kids away for no reason whatsoever, they snatch kids at birth without giving mothers the possibility to prove their parenting skills, they take children into care on simple hearsay.

I would NEVER be complicit in SS crimes.

@Sammy Gabbie AGAIN
You will insist on invariably getting the wrong end of the stick. There is none more deaf than those who refuse to hear.
Anyway, in case you want a bit of bedtime-reading in your mobile home, I’ve selected some decent piece of research for you:
http://fixcas.com/scholar/impact.pdf

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Question by Rebecca: Are there any books(novels) on teed depression or cutting?
If so , what are they called, Thank you x

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Answer by Rock? Pugs??
Try “Cut,” by Patricia McCormick.

About:
“Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.
Now she’s at Sea Pines, a “residential treatment facility” filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn’t want to have anything to do with them. She doesn’t want to have anything to do with anyone. She won’t even speak. But Callie can only stay silent for so long….”

See it here: http://www.amazon.com/Cut-Patricia-McCormick/dp/0545290791/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y

AND

“Scars,” by Cheryl Rainfield.

About:
“Kendra, a sexual abuse survivor, cuts to cope with the pain, but she doesn’t remember the identity of who abused her. Kendra makes a friend in Meghan, and falls in love with her. When Kendra’s abuser starts threatening her, she must find a way to face her past and stop hurting herself–before it’s too late.”

See it here: http://www.amazon.com/Scars-Cheryl-Rainfield/dp/1934813575/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380039642&sr=1-1&keywords=cutting

AND

“Impulse,” by Ellen Hopkins.

About:

“Three teens tell their stories, from a psychiatric hospital after failed suicide attempts…
A compulsive cutter hides a paper clip to dig into her skin. Tony’s drug overdose was triggered by an addiction in which he exchanged sex for money. And Connor is the son of rich, controlling parents, and he survives a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a doomed affair with a female teacher.”

See it here:http://www.amazon.com/Impulse-Ellen-Hopkins/dp/1416903577/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380039838&sr=1-2&keywords=cuts+self

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Question by : Why do “drug rehab” cults continue to thrive despite their many documented cases of abuse?
Why do cults that follow the STRAIGHT INC model continue to exist? STRAIGHT finally got shut down in 1993 but not until HUNDREDS of cases of abuse became documented. Even so, many of the STRAIGHT clinics simply changed their names and continued to abuse the teens held captive there. Verbal abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, sleep deprivation, forced separation from parents, kidnappings, and false imprisonment are just a few of the many crimes that all STRAIGHT based cults are charged with. Many have been shut down but why do they continue to exist??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight,_Incorporated

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_Miller_Newton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Adolescent_Recovery_Centre

http://thestraights.com/

http://kidsofbergencounty.com/

http://thestraights.com/safesuit2001/index.htm (SAFE was located not too far from where I live in Orlando, Fl)

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Answer by The Ingenious Hidalgo DonQuixote
they give money to the right people

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