In most states across the country people are being turned away left and right when it comes to needing mental health care treatment for their children. They are then left with no other options other than to board in an emergency room, or go to a court house and ask the court to force dcf to take custody of their children for the child’s own safety as well as others. Most Insurance companies mislead the patient and their caretakers into thinking they offer psychiatric residential treatment facilities which they rarely do. Residential treatment facilities are either privately paid out of pocket usually by the parents mortgaging their home or are contracted by dcf. Our system is broken. It needs to be fixed. Most government agencies are contracting to other private agencies who are the ones winning in this . The patient and their families are losing. And if they are guardianships or adoptions the system is turning their backs in order to save money and liability.