Residential Care ‘Repackaged’

In the last few years, the strategic shift for executive teams of provider organizations has been to create more community-based service delivery. The contributing factors are many: there are policy and legislative initiatives (see California Launching “Continuum Of Care” Reform Initiative For Foster Care, Pennsylvania Legislative Analysis Recommends Consolidating The Five Residential Centers For People With Intellectual Disabilities, and South Dakota To Revamp Juvenile Justice System To Reduce Residential Placements By 64% By 2020). There is payer preference (see Child Welfare’s Moving Target – Towards Community-Based Care and Connecticut Plans To Close Training School & Regional Centers &amp . . .