What do you do when you need to balance the mental illness of one child against the wellness of a whole family? Do you allow the mentally ill and potentially very violent child to return home? Or do you push for another residential placement?
Tag: accountability
Informal Adjustment Conference aka Juvenile Court
Today we received notice of a conference with a Judicial Referee regarding two of the charges that David has accumulated this summer. The others include multiple charges of unruly, forgery, and theft of property. I shared it with David, because until now he seems to think that he is immune to action against him for…
David is conning them.
David is coming home today. Yesterday he shared that he was thinking about killing himself. Today he denied telling me that. Today he is coming home. I expressed my frustration as kindly as I could to the social worker. She claims to understand. But does she? Does she understand what it is to fear becoming…