I.                The decision to eradicate the Minimum standards for Child Residential Care Institutions would impede the autonomy afforded our facility in the development of plans of care for individual residents based on their specific needs.  Due to the fact that we do not receive government funding and are not licensed under the Child Residential Care Facility standards we have autonomy that other facilities that are licensed under CRF standards do not have. This provides us the ability to specialize our services and meet the need of resident’s referred out of state regulated facilities, thus becoming a resource for other facilities and children. Should CRI Minimum standards be eliminated this would break a bond for us as a resource for other facilities who are unable to meet the needs of children and families related to limitations placed on their program by mandated CRF standards.