Robert J. Marx, LISW; Clinical Cluster: A New Tool to Enhance Staff Competencies, Treatment and Outcomes; AACRC Conference; October 2005.
"By and large, when a young person, for whatever reason, requires a period of out of home care or treatment.... The families feel defeated and demoralized, and the children or adolescents feel overwhelmed and as if their lives are slipping further away from their control" (Durrant 1993). All too oftern , the cultures of many residential programs reflect staff members at various levels of feeling defeated, demoralized and out-of-control. This isomorphic relationship between the culture of the program and the problems of the youth and family reflect both of these systems being stuck in unsuccessful attempts to solve problems and unable to see, let a lone use, alternative solutions that are available to them..."

Robert J. Marx, LISW: Faith Based Services, Focus on Children; Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities Newsletter: November 2004.
"The faith based influence of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd who founded Rosemont Center in 1865 is very apparent in the agency's mission statement with the identification of Spiritual needs, the concept of reconciliation, and the expansion from self and other to God. When the Sisters of the Food Shepherd relinquished ownership and governance of the Rosemont Center in 2000, the agency could no longer be identified as a Catholic institution, but became a secular agency. The board expressed its desire to weave the continued influence of the Good Shepherd philosophy into the fabric of the new Rosemont entity with regard to governance, human resources, community interactions, and programming..."

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