You're right. I'm a former homeless person in services with Burrell. I do have MAJOR complaints about my attempt to stay in therapy with a provider who will work at Burrell long enough to cover at least one year's treatment plan. But my case workers and their assistance helping me apply for and stay on benefits, medicaid, and get into housing? Invaluable. Even if I still haven't been able to keep the same case managers, they do a lot more to transfer me to a new case manager than the therapists did to get me into mental health sessions with someone new, so we're still trying to start on a plan that we came up with in 2019, but ....yeah. Better than none of that for damn sure!

I knew a minor from another family who claimed he was kidnapped from school by Lakeland and held there for several weeks while his family had to scrape together what he called "ransom," but from what little I could gather it sounds like maybe his family arranged for him to be taken from school and admitted to Lakeland, and changed their minds, hqe trouble getting him discharged, and were being hassled about a very large bill for services. I still don't know the truth, not in contact with that family anymore, but either way it sounded shady as hell and I've heard of places like these all over the country extorting money from kids' families but they don't seem to be targeting RICH families so I'd love to get some clarity on the whole system here.