Why would small children be in group homes ... - Adoption Forums

I worked for 6 years at a psychiatric hospital for children. We also had a group home and level five school on the property that, when needed, we would 'float' over and help out in those facilities.

The group home has four different locked units. The first two were for teenage girls only. The third was for 5-11 year old girls, but we would occasionally get a younger one living there for a month or two. The last one was for boys between the ages of 5-11, but, again, we would get younger boys occasionally. The youngest we ever had live there was a TWO year old out of control kid. Yeah, they couldn't find a foster home to deal with him when, all he needed was consistency and love.

One of my heartbreaking cases was of a three year old girl that was DC from the hospital to home, came aback a few months later when she was four and was then DC from the hospital to the locked door group home. She was completely totally out of control. Completely. She would be given enough drugs to tranquilize (a practice I am HIGHLY against) 3 elephants and she would still be raging. In fact, they eventually had to stop giving her drugs because, in the words of the wise doctors "we give this kid anymore drugs her heart is going to explode."

Soooooo, she raged and I would literally hold her in a basket hold for an hour at a time. She was DC to the group home because the placement coordinators didn't feel like a foster home could meet her needs. She was there long term.

We had a few other tiny ones that were 'temporary' placements in the group home and stayed there for a few days until a home opened up for them.

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