The intent to obtain perspective was sincere, and there shouldn't and wouldn't be enough information here to identify the person or persons involved in the scenario that I presented unless they already have that privledged information to the case or cases, but I will remove the original post so that there's no issue of confidentiality to the individual or individuals involved to be on the safe side.
However, I will say that it is common practice to give case studies like these in a public forum for feedback on how to best approach the situation as long as no identifying information is given.
As for the conflict of interest, at least I don't believe that there is a conflict of interest between my work as a social worker and my work for Youth ACT. My employers are aware of my work with CAFETY and now Youth ACT, and they are supportive of it. Since our agencies mission is to give youth the choice of their services and to keep kids out of residential programs, my mission would seem to be identical in both situations.
Like I've said before, I have chosen to work in an area where I have persuaded parents to keep their kids at home instead of sending them to Ivy Ridge, managed to pull a kid out of a program in Pennsylvania against that school's recommendations, gotten kids released from juvenile detention. The situation described is the only time where I have worked with a youth that under my watch the youth has been placed in a more restrictive setting, albeit if I wasn't involved the youth would have be placed in an even more restrictive setting. I wanted to get feeback from this board to see if there was another way of going about the situation that would be to this youth's benefit. I was asking for your help, since as it has been stated here much recently that I'm misguided.
Now, I'm going to edit the original post and ask for your forgiveness if it turns out I did something that wasn't kosher.
