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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The practice head, who has never once met Ash and has not had a single helpful thing to say to us since Ash started group DBT therapy in September, tells us that based on the therapist’s assessment, Ash is not safe at home and we must take her to the emergency room immediately, or else they will sign an emergency petition to have her removed by the police from our care."

This section really stood out for me. It's so wretched for a provider to do this. When we were researching providers a mom told me this nightmare story about how this type of thing happened to her. The head of the practice apparently has done this to several patients accusing the parents of abuse. The provider is crazy as they parents cleared but caused huge trauma for kids who were already in a mental health crisis. We left the practice very quickly after hearing that.[/quote]

So if you don't take your child to the ER what is CPS really going to do? They aren't going to take custody of your child. If you say financially we can't afford it and it doesn't help since there aren't beds anyway, what options does CPS have if you prove you are trying and taking your child to appointments. It isn't like CPS are going to start arresting parents or charging parents whose kids are in a mental health crisis for neglect. I would assume if they call the police the police wouldn't just come take a child away and transport the child somewhere without discussing it with a crisis team. I would think the dad that is a neurologist would trump a psychologist. [/quote]
CPS can move the kid to a foster home while sorting things out.[/quote]

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