11.   As a result, state and county officials are increasingly reluctant to finance group homes and there are long waiting lists.

12.   As part of deinstitutionalization, the state is also closing some of its seven developmental centers for mentally retarded patients in favor of group homes.

13.   At the time of his death, Nathaniel was living at a group home in suburban Winnetka that he entered on his own, his mother said.

14.   Belanger said Dallaire will remain in supervised custody at a group home for the mentally disturbed.

15.   Bill Green is sitting in the second-floor conference room of the Sullivan House group home where Leon Smith spent the past four years.

16.   Both men live in group homes and are currently unemployed.

17.   Both remained in the hospital for several years after state doctors had concluded that they could be more appropriately cared for in small group homes.

18.   -- Earlier this year, six people with disabilities sued residents of a Missouri town for filing a lawsuit to stop them from moving into a group home.

19.   A group home in Griffin had made the girls leave after they locked themselves in a bathroom and yelled obscenities.

20.   A Supreme Court decision on group homes could affect Montgomery County.