As seen in the original post on this thread, KHK staff wrote:
"KHK staff wrote
Similarities to Straight ,Inc.
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...Twenty one years ago, this program was opened by a group of parents who transferred kids from the LIFE Program in Florida, a program which used the model (5 phases, host home). Kids Helping Kids has never had any direct affiliation with Straight, Inc. and has never employed any of their Executive Staff. George Ross, who may have at one time been involved with Straight was hired as the Director but quickly left before KHK began treating clients. We did employee a Straight Graduate as a peer staff for a short period of time. Neither of these people greatly influenced the culture of the program.
Our program is dynamic and has changed over time to meet the needs of the families we treat. I think our culture must be very different. In 1993 we purchased the building that Straight built in 1982 and left in 1986 or '87."
But wait, I have a bit of a different history, as reported in the Washington Post, see this link for the whole article
http://http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?topic=9023&forum=7, but here is the part about how KHK had quite a bit of Straight influence:
Dr. Steven Katkin, who was instrumental in instituting a Straight program in the Cincinnati area before breaking with Straight, Inc. over the issue of monitoring, says that there "does seem to be a core of truth" to some of the complaints.
"When I was referring patients to Straight, I heard only positive things about it from the kids themselves," Katkin says. "When we started Kids Helping Kids [another drug rehabilitation program], most of our staff had been to Straight, and we inadvertently discovered from talking to them that they had been physically pushed around and intimidated."
(Copyright 1983 The Washington Post
The Washington Post
January 2, 1983, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: Metro; C1
LENGTH: 1847 words
HEADLINE: Controversy Over Drug Program Extends to New Va. Clinic
BYLINE: By Eve Zibart, Washington Post Staff Writer)
