As discussed in my recent article about the failure of the state agency overseen by ADHS director Will Humble, to meaningfully protect the interests and care needs of Arizona's mentally and behaviorally troubled juveniles, the Arizona Republic newspaper has actually been publishing daily coverage of this investigation and the related exposure of this matter. Please take a moment to review the details of this reporting, for in terms of the lapses in protocol and related violations of procedural law and policy specific to the state's obligation to fully protect the rights and care needs of its public health system clients, this matter illustrates patterns identical to the issues that I have been working to address in relation to the substandard conditions at The Arizona State Hospital, which is also one of Will Humble's responsibilities.
TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE(S), VISIT AZCENTRAL.COM. THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC NEWSPAPER WILL HAVE A FULL UDPATE EACH DAY OF THIS WEEK.
Michael Chow/The Republic
Arizona Department of Health Services Director Will Humble answers questions about the regulation of Arizona’s juvenile residential treatment centers.
FEBRUARY 20, 2013
Records obtained by The Arizona Republic show the state has taken little or no substantial enforcement action against any of Arizona’s 11 Level 1 facilities, despite numerous reports of sexual misconduct, physical violence, repeated runaways and other problems involving their mostly teenaged patients.
Craig Harris and Rob O’Dell/The Republic
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A look at regulation of Arizona’s juvenile residential treatment centers.
Michael Chow/The Republic
Arizona juvenile residential treatment facilities incident reports.
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
DAY 2: Reports of misconduct and safety issues The Arizona Republic
FEBRUARY 17, 2013
An Arizona Republic investigation finds some of Arizona's most severely troubled youth have reportedly been sexually and physically abused in residential treatment centers amid lax oversight by the state agencies that license, monitor, fund and assign children to the facilities, an Arizona Republic investigation has found.
Arizona's troubled teens: At risk and overlooked
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I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE ALL OF MY READERS TO READ THESE ARTICLES IN FULL, WHICH CAN BE VIEWED AT AZCENTRAL.COM
The significance of this situation cannot be overstated at this time. The relationship of the issues arising via these media reports and the issues specific to my reporting about the substandard conditions at The Arizona State Hospital is one and the same. As such, the work of the Arizona Republic's reporters in this case has immediate bearing on the evolution of my work specific to ASH, enough so that I see great potential in terms of this process as it stands today. I have always been very aware of the fact that the presence of graphic patient abuse at ASH, and administrative failings of ASH's executive officers and senior clinicians to do anything about it, has everything to do with related problems in the state agency (ADHS) obligated to oversee the practices at ASH, and I have, in fact, personally experienced grossly substandard responses from various officials in the ADHS Office of Grievances and Appeals ever since I first turned to them not long after my admission to ASH in January, 2011. And thanks to these articles in Republic, I somewhat get the feeling that it is only a matter of time before these rat bastards go down, at all levels of authority at ASH and in the Arizona Department of Health Services/Behavioral Health Services.
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