@brokensilence44: A 17-year-old girl spent seven months at Connecticut’s Solnit Children’s Center in Middletown. Her clinicians determined she was ready for discharge. A probate judge agreed she no longer met the legal criteria for confinement and ordered her released. There was just one problem. The Department of Children and Families had nowhere appropriate to send her. According to attorney Josh Michtom of the Center for Children’s Advocacy, the teenager subsequently spent time in an emergency foster home, DCF offices and hospital emergency departments. She reportedly went without education or therapy while waiting for placement. After an emergency appeal to the Connecticut Supreme Court, DCF found a residential placement. It lasted three days before she returned to an emergency department. The investigation also revealed troubling conditions at Solnit. Independent monitors reported that 48% of registered nursing positions were vacant in September. They continued documenting environmental hazards, staffing shortages and delayed repairs. State lawmakers have demanded corrective plans. Meanwhile, a legislative committee created to oversee DCF has not yet met, and its recommendations aren’t due for another 14 months. WHY WE’RE WATCHING: A court determined this child shouldn’t remain hospitalized. The state responsible for her welfare still couldn’t provide an appropriate place to live. Governor Ned Lamont acknowledges serious problems. Officials cite shortages of suitable placements and increasingly complex behavioral health needs. Those explanations don’t change the teenager’s circumstances. Connecticut has managed to create a system where children can be too well to remain hospitalized and still have nowhere safe to go. 🔔LIVE NEXT MONTH TO EXPOSE MY CASE, LAWSUIT AND LAW. FOLLOW TO BRING MEANINGFUL CHANGE! 🔔 #protectthechildren #childprotectiveservices #childwelfare #savethechildren #childwelfaresystem

Nickcole 💕 :

I’ll take her how do I get involved

ohsnap :

dcfs as it was known in the 90s couldnt find placement for me and stuck me in a psych ward in skokie. its been happening for a long time

🇺🇸TheReal🧿ne🇹🇷 :

This country keeps plummeting futher and further we need to stop failing our children and show we are better than the system!

dandylion :

from what I was told by a employee or ex employee of the "valley" in Barling AR. they take kid's in when they have no room and this is the place I posted on with priors of SA by a adult on child and several investigations that in my opinion they cleaned up

user52761162530415 :

we don’t have enough foster parents. We don’t have anywhere to put the kids. They’re either going to be at the Jail or in the hospital. Some Foster homes are at full capacity. Don’t wanna turn any kids away, but I have nowhere for them to sleep so there’s two sides to every story.

Kristen Poole :

Bring that child to me 😪

SKBryan :

Omg, get her safely to me. 😭 People fucking suck!

JennyLynn :

I was in CPS care in South Dakota 30 years ago and the system is still failing. The hospitals end up with kids all the time. Here babies are drug tested and probably close to half don’t go home with the mom but to foster care

F Dog :

God help these kids

Lizzie's life :

Why would you send somebody to the emergency room if they were not having a medical emergency...?

:~: Kali :~: :

It hasn't changed in the 30 years since I was in the system, it's AWFUL

Xoxo.gtz :

System is a joke

TCHJ80 :

Can we talk about how this is happening in every single state. These kids need the world to do better. Don’t even get me started on the hotel stays for our most vulnerable youth….

Elisia89 :

omg this is sad

Broken Silence 🔔 :

Broken Silence 🔔 :

HELP PUSH BELLHEARD 🔔

Broken Silence 🔔 :

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Cayla Lynn :

If I could I would so take her in… I was too in phyciatric facilities as a teen. My dad signed his rights over to a guardian because he couldn’t do it

kashdolly :

Dcf are broken system don’t care about these kids

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Jessica Wilson :

this is why dfc is very stupid

Nai :

sad. and the system will prolong as the process as long as possible until she turns 18 and ages out 😒

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