Did you know that in North Dakota, it can cost $225,000.00 to have a child in a psychiatric residential treatment facility (prtf) for one year? Seriously. This cost doesn’t include medical services. It doesn’t include clothing. Pretty incredible isn’t it? In the coming weeks, Fighting for Answers will be checking with facilities in other states…
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Letter to the Editor
UPDATE This letter was deemed too lengthy by the editors so we trimmed it down. You can read the revised letter here. ============================= I submitted the following to the editors of North Dakota’s four largest newspapers. ============================= Dear Editor The Schulte Report begins with the sentence “The North Dakota mental health and substance abuse system…
we tried didn’t we?
We tried, didn’t we? We didn’t fail him, we are doing everything that we can. I wish that there was a magic wand that we could wave to take this away from him. But if we did that, would he be the child that we love? I don’t know, but I would have liked to…