Getting help for adult children.

[emeraldkity4]

<p>For profit entities skirt the law, and seem to provide minimal benefit to the community.
We need better resources for families.</p>

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For weeks in the spring, Justin DeVille, a 27-year-old mentally ill man from Atlanta, wandered the Seattle streets, trying to find food and a safe place to stay. Homeless, hungry and exhausted, DeVille sometimes slept at a shelter. Other times, he crashed under an abandoned house for the night or huddled in makeshift cardboard hovels.</p>

<p>His parents, back in Georgia, believed their son was being cared for at a suburban Seattle group home for the mentally ill. They believed he was getting psychotherapy, one-on-one support and other treatment, for which the DeVilles were paying more than $25,000.

[High-cost</a> home puts mentally ill client in shelter | Local News | The Seattle Times](<a href=“http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019234919_mentally_ill_homes23m.html]High-cost”>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019234919_mentally_ill_homes23m.html)</p>

<p>[Group</a> homes stir anger in quiet Normandy Park | Local News | The Seattle Times](<a href=“http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2018798999_mentally_ill_homes29m.html]Group”>http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2018798999_mentally_ill_homes29m.html)</p>

<p>Therapy is apparently provided off site, so state regulatory agencies don’t have jurisdiction of the home.</p>