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I haven't seen any of this drama, but I wonder what they'd even have to be dramatic about. It's not as though any of the family is at fault. She wasn't there at home when she disappeared. People just seem bent on creating drama no matter what sometimes. Sad. They should be pulling together for Serenity.
Serenity
Dear Lord,
Please bring this child home where she belongs.
Amen
That made me cry, it is so beautiful. Thank you... Tissues?
Gladly ...I just used my last one. Hold my hand while we walk together to get more.
The new flyer is a wonderful picture -- but again says this healthy-looking child is 4' 7" and 96 pounds!!!
Is her weight transposed?
Unlikely to help us all find Serenity, either way.
Prayers & comfort for Serenity, her families, and all involved in her care & search, Laughing
Serenity
Dear Lord,
Please bring this child home where she belongs.
Amen
Serenity
Dear Lord,
Please bring this child home where she belongs.
Amen
What is interesting about this case, is how did this happen, what interventions could be done to prevent this situation again?
Was this an anomaly? Even so, the crisis needs analysis. Probably a lawsuit is pending.
The new flyer is a wonderful picture -- but again says this healthy-looking child is 4' 7" and 96 pounds!!!
Is her weight transposed?
Unlikely to help us all find Serenity, either way.
Prayers & comfort for Serenity, her families, and all involved in her care & search, Laughing
I more than anything hate that hindsight may not help this child. However, I would like to see an honest acknowledgment and look at what can we do differently in the future to avoid it ever happening again. The best employees, the best places, the best businesses, learn from their mistakes and make changes, all are human, at least the last I knew . However, in our liability ridden world, they at times will not acknowledge it nor be allowed to (sometimes by a board or administration) even when it comes to a missing child, death, accident, etc. Add in insurance companies and one can go further on that and sideways. Just my own opinion and just speculation.
The new flyer is a wonderful picture -- but again says this healthy-looking child is 4' 7" and 96 pounds!!!
Is her weight transposed?
Unlikely to help us all find Serenity, either way.
Prayers & comfort for Serenity, her families, and all involved in her care & search, Laughing
I bet that interior doors were not locked for exit due to fire code. But there should have been some sort of double safety lock feature, so that a resident couldn't get out independently. Not unlike what they have at nursing homes for people with dementia.
I have worked at various residential facilities, and found, unfortunately, that as much as you try to anticipate situations, and be proactive. You learn from situations like this, tragic as it is, so that incidents like this are a learning experience so it won't occur again.
It’s alarming that she could run away so easily. The Children’s Society does not appear to be a Mental Health home. All of the pediatric ones that I have experience with - you have to have a staff member let you in and staff member let you out. They use their badge to release the locks. Even so, my daughters school has so many protocols including locked classroom doors, so that a child doesn’t wander off. And it’s just a regular public school, not a home for children that have special situations. I feel sad that she was able to get out. At that age, they are not at the maturity level to know what is best for them. That’s why these serious protocols are often put into place.I know of people who have worked at nursing homes and know of deaths of residents who got out of nursing homes in frigid temps. An honest nursing home worker if one knows someone who works in one will tell you what likely happened. Nothing devious, just what likely happened and at what time of day and why (perhaps different states vary, no idea). Myself, I have never worked in any type of the places referred to. Sure have seen a lot with regard to liability though, etc.
I get the issues with doors and alarms with regard to privacy, rights, liability, etc. In no way am I blaming anyone but I do think liability has gone too far sometimes in this country and affects things not always in a positive way. I take this from a remark a poster made in an earlier thread I think that in some facilities they are actually told not to go after a "runner" because it can be claimed that the chasing made them run farther or faster. Say what? This is a 9 year old that took off in winter without a coat, etc. If such rules actually exist, then it is about the $$$ and liability and not the life of the child. I am in no way saying it was the case at this facility--I have no idea.
Like you though, I just feel if it is learned from/a learning experience then at least going forward maybe such things can be avoided. Yet I understand that is really easy for me to say, I was not there.