From Juvenile Justice Information Exchange:
Bullied at his Philadelphia high school, Earl Morris’ son started defying his teachers and his father and allegedly stole from a convenience store. Those charges against the then 15-year-old, who’d been diagnosed with disabilities including anxiety and depression, were dismissed when a witness failed to appear in court, his father said, recalling what happened five years ago.
And then there was the day soon after when Morris made what he calls “a tough decision” to summon the police after his son refused to go to school. “Basically he had a meltdown … I realized he needed help.”
For two months after that intervention by law enforcement officers, his son, who asked not to be named, was treated at the Fairmount Behavioral Health System in Philadelphia. But the now 20-year-old remains plagued by the issues that fueled his teenage misbehavior and by what his father sees as an overall failure to prepare him to transition into adulthood. Continue reading>>>
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