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A clinic student was assigned to work with a teenage girl who had been improperly committed to a psychiatric hospital. Because she had no family, the girl had been living in foster care prior to her hospitalization. Although she was soon ready to be released, she languished in the hospital for months because no one was planning her discharge or seeking a new place for her to live. Together with a sympathetic social worker in the hospital, the student developed a strategy to secure an appropriate placement for the girl and put together referral materials for a foster family or group home. She also negotiated with the foster-care agency responsible for the girl’s care, advocating for a proper placement. The student began to visit the client regularly to keep the client up to date on the efforts she was making, which included employing a series of advocacy strategies that eventually secured the client’s release and placement in a community-based group home. Without the student’s tenacity and commitment to this client, the girl would have remained locked in the hospital for many more months.
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