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Residential Facilities: Improved Data and Enhanced Oversight Would Help Safeguard the Well-Being of Youth with Behavioral and Emotional Challenges
Residential Facilities: Improved Data and Enhanced Oversight Would Help Safeguard the Well-Being of Youth with Behavioral and Emotional Challenges
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Jun. 10, 2008
ANNOTATION: Maltreatment and civil rights abuses experienced by juveniles in youth residential facilities are investigated. Contents of this report include: results in brief; background; fatalities and maltreatment occurred in government and private facilities, but state and national data do not fully capture the extent and nature of the problem; state licensing and monitoring exclude some facilities and do not address all risks to youth well-being; federal agencies challenged to address weaknesses in state oversight of residential facilities; options for taking action to promote youth well-being in residential facilities; conclusion; recommendations for executive action; agency comments and GAO evaluation; circumstances surrounding state-reported suicides in residential facilities for youth, 2006; state-reported incidents of staff maltreatment of youth in residential facilities, fiscal year 2005; licensing status for selected residential facilities; state agency accreditation requirements for residential facilities for youth; selected state licensing standards for residential facilities for youth; selected state monitoring requirements for residential facilities for youth; and state agency actions taken within the last three years against government and private residential facilities.
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