Do youth sometimes run away from inpatient mental health treatment facilities?
• Youths may be able to run from inpatient facilities despite the best efforts of facility staff. • If this happens, extensive efforts are made by the treatment program to contact parents, police, probation and other entities to work to support the safe return of the youth to the inpatient treatment program. • In CLIP facilities, the treatment bed can be held open for a short time in order to provide immediate re-admission for a youth who is expected to return.
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