# Takeaways from inside a teen treatment center for adoptees, funded by taxpayers: runaways, assaults

- URL: https://theranews.net/blog/2026-05-31-takeaways-from-inside-a-teen-treatment-center-for-adoptees-funded-by-taxpayers-r-110b7d/
- Published: 2026-05-31
- Type: Archive summary (AI-assisted summary of third-party reporting)
- Original outlet: hastingstribune
- Original report: https://www.hastingstribune.com/ap/business/takeaways-from-inside-a-teen-treatment-center-for-adoptees-funded-by-taxpayers-runaways-assaults/article_6c5ddf71-9bdc-50f3-b0c4-956aedcffaf5.html
- Topics: mental-health-policy
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> A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children. Calo Programs is part of the so-called troubled teen industry that has been quietly institutionalizing adopted children at extraordinarily high rates. How Calo...

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