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May 2008
 Residential Facilities: Improved Data & Enhanced Oversight Would Help
Safeguard the Well-Being of Youth With Behavioral & Emotional Challenges
This report by the Government Accountability Office noted that
because many youth with behavioral and emotional challenges were facing
abuse in residential facilities, enhanced oversight and improved record
keeping and record sharing among relevant agencies would help safeguard
youth in those facilities. The study was conducted in response to a 2004
report stating that 200,000 youth with behavioral and social challenges
were living in such residential facilities in which they were subject to
possible maltreatment and civil rights violations.
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