Childhood schizophrenia

When my son was 15yo he came to me and said "who are these voices in my head?" The paranoia and psychotic episodes started and at first they were directed towards me. My boy would tell police and doctors "my mum has a hit out on me, she's going to knock me off" it absolutely broke my heart seeing him go through this.

I exhausted everything available in the community to get help for him, headspace, camhs, youth justice, mission Australia, community mental health. He's been on so many different medications including the monthly depot shot. He has been in and out of detention centres and hospital mental health wards.

My son has an older sister and three younger sisters. I had youth justice tell me that I had no other option left but to call the department of Child protection and ask them to step in, I couldn't believe that it had come to this! Surely there was somewhere else to turn to? there isn't.

My boy has been in the care of DCP for almost 12 months now, they hired carers 6 hours a day to try and keep him busy and out of trouble, they are exhausted. He has been back in the detention centre five times since being there, he has been self harming and drowning himself in alcohol to try to rid of the voices in his head.

I have been working everyday with DCP to try get the right help for my boy, he calls me between 3-10 times a day always asking if he can come back home to me and his sisters. My heart is broken. I feel like I've had to choose between having my son or my daughters.

So where is my boy today? He's back in the youth detention centre, they have him in hand cuffs whenever he leaves his room because he can get paranoid over someone very quickly and become violent. He is only allowed finger food because they don't trust him to not self harm. He is isolated from everyone else while he's there which makes his symptoms alot worse, when he's bored the voices get worse.

I have DCP apologize to me and they feel like they are failing my son and I. They have said "somehow you guys have fallen through the gaps in the system" I have worked so hard, how has it got to this point? I need help for my boy.

He tells me he loves me everyday and he wants to come home. What will happen once he turns 18 in a few months? I'm broken worried and lost. Please is anyone there to help?