Do I Have A Case To Sue A Group Home For Discharging Me Into Homelessness As A Minor?
Location: Colorado
This is a little more complicated than the title may appear, so I appreciate your patience with some context. I'm asking for help on the possible negligence/abandonment on this, not on the medical side. I was admitted to a residential mental health facility when I was 15. While I was there, my mother stated that, if I was discharged, she wouldn't come get me. My therapist at this facility covered for her and prevented a DHS case from opening (I honestly have no idea how, I'm still waiting for my records request to process). As a result of that, I was transferred to one of this facility's attached group homes on a "scholarship"- I was funded under a state program that wouldn't cover the group home, and they pulled funding at the time of my discharge from the residential. Three months later, I was caught in a relationship with one of my housemates. As a result of this, we were pressured into choosing between each other or the facility, and we chose each other (sounds all romantic when I write it but it was a choice made out of survival). I was removed from the room, and when I returned, I was asked if this was the hill I wanted to die on. I said yes. They asked what I would do, I said I would figure it out.
They responded by telling me I had 30 minutes to pack up all of my belongings from the group home and leave. A few important notes here- I was 17 at the time, I was discharged without DHS, EMS, or police being notified of any transfer or abandonment, I was not given a care plan or any resources (and was actually point blank told to not contact my parents, they wouldn't help me- my parents were told, in turn, to not help me by the facility). I signed the paperwork myself and was handed a sticky note with the address of the nearest youth homeless shelter. I had no phone or way to see where it was. It was 32 degrees out that day, and snowing. I was homeless for a month after that, and have been fighting to stay out of homelessness ever since (I just got housed again after my third round). I'm disabled and can point out specific reasons tied to the whole ordeal as to why that is the case. I am almost positive I have a case here, I just don't know what for or how to start. So, what grounds do I have to sue under (if any), and if there are grounds, how do I start this process? I've never interacted with the legal system directly and am a fish out of water here.
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