Category Archives: Mental Health – Child

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The Elusive, Manipulative Adopted Child – Tina Traster – The Atlantic

I link to this article because I think that it is worth reading.  It might help my readers understand that we aren’t alone in dealing with the behaviors brought on by Reactive Attachment Disorder.
We need to start a conversation on a National, and International level about this.  In my opinion, there will be more cases in the coming years than we can possibly fathom.  To the point where it will be tracked much in the same way as Autism is now.

The Elusive, Manipulative Adopted Child – Tina Traster – The Atlantic.

Medicaid letter

As part of the process of dealing with Medicaid, we received a letter from our county social services office.

It reads in part:

Your Medicaid will end on May 31, 2014 because:
Your case closed as you requested.

It then goes on to list the applicable laws.

Further it states:

The Medicaid for David is closing as he is at the facility in Billings, MT.  A subadopt child is considered to be a resident of the state they are physically living in and will need to apply for Medicaid in the state where they are currently residing.

My thoughts.

David is 12 years old.  He can’t be emancipated to live on his own until he is like 16.   The only reason he is at this facility is because all of the facilities in the state we live in said that they couldn’t take him if the last facility he was in couldn’t/wouldn’t care for him.

David was court ordered by a state court to have Medicaid until he turns 18.  Couldn’t this be considered a violation of that order?  The state his current facility is in considers his placement in the PRTF facility to be optional.

So frustrated.  Because I was out of state last week, the appeal for this goes in tomorrow morning.

filing an appeal with medicaid.

While the state is actively reviewing David’s case, we are going to file an appeal.

Not sure what will happen, but this way, no one can say we didn’t exhaust all measures.   It seems strange to me to have to appeal something that he was ordered by the court to have until he is 18.  Usually, one files an appeal to get out of whatever court order is in place.

At any rate, that is all to report today.

Cheers.

Carl

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