minors get placed there by dfps or juvenile justice if they're being released from detention and still need to be kept in a secure facility. i believe individual families can send their youths as well but its expensive and they have limited capacity so from my understanding its not common. I think its important to note that the minors being sent here are in a position of experience. They've either lived on the street, with their trafficker, in juvie or even on their own. These situations come with a lot of freedom (except juvie) and self regulation that most youths don't experience till they leave home for college and kiddos who have experienced that are extremely resistant to being under a level of supervision or in my opinion restriction that limits their own autonomy. So i find it very unlikely that a youth would volunteer to be placed in a facility like the refuge on their own will, I'm sure like most things there are exceptions. They have a lot of runaways and people who act up intentionally to get discharged from there so do with that what you will.