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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 111357" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>CHINS is Child In Need Of Services. My difficult child's Guardain Ad Litem (GAL)filed this for him- which got Social Services involved. It's a sticky law that can work for or against a family. Of course, it's designed to work for getting the difficult child services. In our case, the GAL was assigned, with a defense attny. because my son racked up charges suddenly and I let the judge know that 1) I had tried to get him help but my insurance wouldn't cover anything more in depth and 2) if I went out and hired whomever I could to "get difficult child out of this" it could/would send the wrong message to him. The downfall, the GAL went in the mental health help mode blindly and got social services involved to find whatever they could and people were barking up all different trees, many of them the wrong tree, but see, once CHINS is filed, it is basicly out of the parents hands, whether you agree or not. Anyway, my brother tried to step in and get custody, which wouldn't have helped difficult child at all but that's an entirely different story. Anyway, they ultimately assigned a certain in-home therapy for conduct issues, which wasn't recommended for difficult child but it's all the county has to offer. So, now I'm headed to court to show just cause it's all you have doesn't mean it's what his docs think is best. Fortunately, it seems that GAL finally has educated herself on this and remebered that she was assigned to help us- she wasn't assigned because his mom was incompetent. Anyway, it sounds like you're in a better position and maybe your court system will allow more input from you. If you ever have to have a CHINS for your difficult child, just remember, it's giving a lot of leeway to the courts over what kind of treatment will be provided and they could be completely in left field.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 111357, member: 3699"] CHINS is Child In Need Of Services. My difficult child's Guardain Ad Litem (GAL)filed this for him- which got Social Services involved. It's a sticky law that can work for or against a family. Of course, it's designed to work for getting the difficult child services. In our case, the GAL was assigned, with a defense attny. because my son racked up charges suddenly and I let the judge know that 1) I had tried to get him help but my insurance wouldn't cover anything more in depth and 2) if I went out and hired whomever I could to "get difficult child out of this" it could/would send the wrong message to him. The downfall, the GAL went in the mental health help mode blindly and got social services involved to find whatever they could and people were barking up all different trees, many of them the wrong tree, but see, once CHINS is filed, it is basicly out of the parents hands, whether you agree or not. Anyway, my brother tried to step in and get custody, which wouldn't have helped difficult child at all but that's an entirely different story. Anyway, they ultimately assigned a certain in-home therapy for conduct issues, which wasn't recommended for difficult child but it's all the county has to offer. So, now I'm headed to court to show just cause it's all you have doesn't mean it's what his docs think is best. Fortunately, it seems that GAL finally has educated herself on this and remebered that she was assigned to help us- she wasn't assigned because his mom was incompetent. Anyway, it sounds like you're in a better position and maybe your court system will allow more input from you. If you ever have to have a CHINS for your difficult child, just remember, it's giving a lot of leeway to the courts over what kind of treatment will be provided and they could be completely in left field. [/QUOTE]
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