As a therapist in NW Indiana who works with foster and adoptive families, I am very aware of the lack of residential facilities for children and adolescents in our state. We do not LACK facilities, but do have a deficit of places that seem to go beyond CBT. Is anyone, in Indiana, aware of a placement in our state that believes that children who come into placement have had experiences that have affected their developing brains and need help in learning to regulate themselves? And they cannot regulate when they are handled by staff who are unprepared for out of control behaviors that are NOT fixed by simply having positive reinforcements when anything positive they have had, has been taken from them (read bio family, innumerable foster placements, disrupted adoptions). And though you can substantially reduce such behaviors by medications and more medications, it does NOT fix the overriding reason for the behavior...ACEs.
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