Robert Gehrke: A pattern of misconduct and a lack of oversight at teen treatment centers — highlighted in the 'Sent Away' podcast — need to be addressed at state and federal level.
Among those scores of facilities, hundreds of staffers and thousands of kids, take a guess at how many incidents resulted in rule violations in 2016?That’s because regulators typically only inspected facilities once a year and operators were notified in advance when those inspections would occur. And facilities were not self-reporting when things went wrong.
It also expanded the types of incidents that need to be reported to the state — for example, when a child is physically restrained — and required the state to follow up on such incidents. During the first year the law was in effect,Obviously, the jump from four violations to more than 200 didn’t come about because these places were suddenly 50 times as bad as they were five years earlier.
I’m encouraged that the attention focused on these centers and the new state law have led to improvements, but the problems in these treatment centers have not been solved. McKell, who lives just a few miles from Maple Lake Academy told me that more needs to be done. Part of that, he said, is providing more resources to regulators.Part of it will require fixes at the federal level — which McKell hopes comes in a bill being sponsored by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley that seeks to address the transportation of kids across state lines to treatment centers, sometimes against their will.
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