Like other states, Montana has struggled to fund and regulate options for behavioral health care for adolescents. “If we knew then what we know today, my wife and I would never have made the decision to send our daughter to a residential treatment boarding school in Montana,” said Richard Gochnauer, Appelgate’s father.
The law increases the state Department of Public Health and Human Services’ oversight of such programs by requiring weekly, unmonitored video calls between program attendees and their parents, more inspections, and a 24-hour child abuse hotline for program residents. Appelgate, along with her parents, and other students who attended similar alternative, for-profit behavior modification programs in Montana testified about their experiences to help pass a new law that aims to bolster protections for teens in programs that are part of what is commonly referred to as the “troubled teen industry.”
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