US: Congress must take steps to ensure availability of therapeutic residential care (Opinion)
Child Welfare Monitor – August 03, 2021
Around the country, there is a lack of appropriate placements for the most traumatized and hard-to-place foster youth-a shortage that has reached crisis proportions in many states, including Texas, Washington, and Illinois. These children are spending days, weeks or even months in offices and hotels or languishing in inpatient psychiatric units where there is no semblance of normal life. These young people have been damaged by our negligence and now deteriorate daily without the treatment they need and deserve. Unfortunately, recent federal legislation is likely to worsen the crisis by withdrawing federal funding for children placed in some of the best therapeutic residential settings.
https://childwelfaremonitor.org/2021/08/03/congress-must-take-steps-to-ensure-availability-of-therapeutic-residential-care/