Success Stories
Meet Chloe
After three years of bouncing from foster care to group homes to psychiatric residential treatment facilities to hospitalizations, 17 year-old Chloe returned home. It wasn’t easy for her family. When she first arrived home, she was still verbally and physically aggressive. And she was still at risk of harming herself.
The Child ACTT team wrapped around Chloe and her family. They helped her to gain the skills she needed to develop a sense of self-control, and they helped her family learn how to support her when things felt out-of-control.
Her family also received Christmas gifts, bunkbeds for the children who had been sleeping on the floor, clothing and food, and they are working to secure stable housing.
Today, after three months of participation in the Child ACTT service, Chloe is doing well. She is enrolled in a GED program at her local community college. She’s also lost 15 pounds thanks to changes in her medication. “I’m glad I came home with Child ACTT,” Chloe said. “If I would have stayed at the PRTF or was sent to another residential placement, I would have just acted out because I wanted to go home.”
I’m glad I came home with Child ACTT,” Chloe said. “If I would have stayed at the PRTF or was sent to another residential placement, I would have just acted out because I wanted to go home.
Chloe , age 17
