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The Happy Home Care for Elderly, a state-licensed residential care facility, touts its “homelike environment” and “well-trained staff to look after your loved ones,” according to its website.

Some seek to expand funding or services, including for chaplains, mental health treatment, training and pay; and programs that allow juveniles in hardened facilities transition to homelike settings for good behavior.

“What’s interesting is you see nursing homes pushing to get to a more homelike environment and assisted living needing to more adequately manage the medical needs of residents,” Chicotel told me, referring to the current pandemic-inspired reexamination of long-term care.

This was partly because many of the island girls never made it to Class Five—they were sent to the city to earn money for their families or pulled out of school to work at homelike Rupa.

Davis said the state envisioned small, homelike facilities staffed by highly qualified physicians, nurses and teachers.