Looking to relocate son with developmental disabilities

Thanks for your reply Linette.

I'll try the Google search, but what I'm really interested in are first hand opinions regarding programs in other states. Ya know, the problems always been that all the state run Departments of Developmental Disabilities either ignore you or claim they have the very best of everything when in fact they're running under funded and under staffed programs where there is no accountability for anything.

We were involved with what we thought was a good program but within 6 months the people on site - the people who were the determining factor for our decision to sign on with that program, all left the operation. What followed was almost 2 years of sheer torture where the state of NJ totally ignored the growing problems at the group home, which was being run into the ground by a bunch of inner city bottom feeders.

By the way, you may have heard of the NJ Division of Youth and Family Services, a.k.a. "DYFS" ? You know the nightmare where the state places foster children with drug dealers and prostitutes and the children wind up dead or completely lost? Well, The NJ Division of Developmental Disabilities, a.k.a. DDD, is under the auspices of the NJ Department of Human Services which also over sees DYFS. Different name but same mind set, only we were determined not to wake up some morning to learn in the morning paper that our son, had been starved, beaten and raped by some malcontent hired by the state of NJ.

So the search goes on.

Thanks again for your thoughtful reply.

Many thanks to TraumaRUS!

I checked into NAMI and will be researching their site this evening. PARC in Peoria may be a bit of a problem, but I shall hang in there!