51. Group homes are a vital link in the treatment and recovery process for addiction and mental illness. 52. Group-home operators say the decision was a concession to the political reality that opening group homes is more difficult than dispersing the mentally ill in apartments. 53. Goldstein kept asking to be returned to a group home on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. 54. Group homes offer virtually the only option for such teen-agers, but beds in those centers remain in short supply. 55. He bounced from group home to group home, but is now on the verge of living the American Dream. 56. He found out that Rocky had been removed from the crack house by CPS and was living in a group foster home. 57. He graduated from a highly structured group home to one where he had more responsibility, then to independent living. 58. He moved from group home to shelter, forced sometimes to rummage through Dumpsters for food with his younger brother. 59. He lives in group homes. 60. He now lives in a group home on hospital grounds and has off-campus privileges. |