On 2005-01-04 04:39:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I knew mike richter. Did you know Dave fair? Or Pete singer?I was in the dorm above the cafateria.I went to howey last year when i was in orlando, it was very wierd only one building left from when they blew it up as part of a hulk hogan TV show. The gym was there but boarded up.It was the girls dorm that remains and is now an elemntary school.I had drinks with Dave fair about a year ago also in detroit, he is a radio talk show host.If you were there the year after me then we never met. I think i remeber kristen. I do remember Sara and Christie.
So you see i am hated because i do interventions of kids that need help and take them to schools.This board which i found because of desisto is full of one sideed minds that won't believe that any kid gets help and feel that i am a kidnapper although the law does not see it that way. The one that cares"
I don't *hate* you. I just want to see very strict rules governing what you do to prevent the abuses that have happened to some children in the past from happinging to more children in the future.
I'm not against residential care. I'm not against involuntary residential care when the patient is dangerous or criminal (with due process).
I'm against bad or inappropriate involuntary residential care, and I'm against fraudulent practices in residential care.
I want systemic consumer safeguards so that teen residential care is not the extreme caveat emptor situation that it is now.
But hate you? Nope. Why would I? You're just one employee in a whole industry with problems. If you fell off the face of the Earth tomorrow, what would it solve? Not a darned thing. And you don't seem like a terrible person. The industry you're working in is just broken and dysfunctional and badly needs reforms to make it safer and more effective for the kids who end up in it---and to keep kids that shouldn't be in it at all from ending up there.
I'm not saying the kids that shouldn't be in the system don't need services. I'm just saying a lot of times with the proper support, outpatient options or day-hospitalization programs are a better choice for some of these families.
Timoclea