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#53: Residential Care Should Be A Thoughtful First Choice For Some Kids, with Martha Holden
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“Residential care is the last resort” sounds like a policy line, but it lands as a verdict on children and on the people who care for them. In this podcast conversation, Co-Director of the Residential Child Care Project at Cornell University, Martha Holden, and I push back on that idea and explore what happens when group care is treated as a serious, skilled, trauma-informed option rather than a dumping ground for system failures.
We dig into what TCI is actually for: preventing harm during crisis, reducing power struggles, and helping staff respond to aggressive behaviour…
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