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The probe began in 2022 as child welfare advocates called for increased oversight of youth treatment centers following high-profile incidents of abuse and deaths at facilities around the country.
Residential treatment centers for children and adolescents treat multiple conditions from drug and alcohol addictions to emotional and physical disorders as well as mental illnesses. Various studies of youth in residential treatment centers have found that many have a history of family-related issues, often including physical or sexual abuse.
DYS operates correctional facilities for juveniles. The Arkansas Juvenile Assessment & Treatment Center (AJATC), [11] located in Bryant in Saline County, near Alexander, [11] [12] [13] is the primary intake and assessment center for juveniles. Originally established as the Girls Industrial School by Act 199 in 1905, the center houses boys and ...
Facilities that provide residential treatment for drug and alcohol dependencies (addiction and/or alcoholism), or simply chemical dependency. Pages in category "Drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers"
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) called for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate youth residential treatment facilities operated by multiple national health care companies, alleging evidence of ...
Foster children and teens gathered together on a porch. Congregate care is a kind of residential child care community and a residential treatment center that consists of 24-hour supervision for children in highly structured settings such as group homes, residential treatment facilities, or maternity homes.
Some schools are accredited as Residential treatment centers. Behavioral residential treatment became so popular in the 1970s and 1980s that a journal was formed called Behavioral Residential Treatment, which later changed its name to Behavioral Interventions. The journal continues to be published today.
A 2012 study conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded that the U.S. treatment system is in need of a “significant overhaul” and questioned whether the country’s “low levels of care that addiction patients usually do receive constitutes a form of medical malpractice.”