Provider Report Card

"Children, entrusted to the care of behavioral health providers, are routinely subjected to the risk of abuse. In the best of circumstances, children at residential treatment facilities receive care from under-trained and overburdened staff, are given infrequent therapy, sometimes by non-professionals, and are exposed to unsanitary, unsafe, and non-homelike environments. In the worst of circumstances, children at residential treatment facilities suffer the above as well as sexual, physical, verbal, or emotional abuse at the hands of staff. Mistreatment is endemic to the conditions at residential treatment facilities."