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Colorado task force’s solution to stop children from running from residential treatment: Fence ‘em in & lock ‘em up!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

If youre wondering why fencing also might be needed to keep dangers out it illustrates another reason why residential treatment is so harmful. The report added: The risk of harm to children in RTFs is endemic to the operating model. Institutionalization is inherently harmful, inherently traumatic and almost never necessary.