Why wouldn't you trust Kev, or someone like me, that was in these type of places for years?
Cause I know a whole lot of them. Shit, nearly all of the long term, big wheel staff are program graduates. You should check into pre-purchasing Evan Wright's upcoming book. I don't know what's in it, exactly, but I understand he did some really interesting interviews.
Objectivity on CCM girl and Kevin is highly suspect when involved in this sort of subject matter. How could I trust a program graduate to be objective about a program of any sort?
Can't trust them, and won't.
Program survivors and exstaff are the worst people in the world to even try to go into referring. It is a simple matter of logic to understand why. But rather than delve into the logic part of it at the moment I will point out the obvious facts.
1) Unless you are living at the facility you can't ensure constant ongoing supervision of the staff and their treatment of the residents.
2) Unless you actually visit the place you don't even know if the pretty pictures on the website are for rea.
3) An employer turning over FBI background checks to an outside party is illegal under federal law. I am sure the good people at Magnolia X-tian Reformatory forgot about that one.
4) What educational qualifications do CCM Girl and Kevin bring to the table to assess the educational and clinical aspects of the program? None.
You see it is more than just pulling the stand by boogie man out of the bag and waving it around. Holding up wwasp as your strawman for a bad facility while saying this one and this one is good is impossible. You have absolutely no credentials to make that sort of determination. Futher it frankly scares me that you, a program graduate, would even consider yourself able to objectively evaluate a program.
Every program after WWASP to some extent has to seem like a better placement than what you experienced.
I don't trust in you objective ability to sift through a mass of information without thinking all the while, "Well it isn't wwasp so how bad can it be?"
Well, you know what scares me? People that stuck their noses in books, maybe wrote a few essays, drank a shitload of beer, and basically coasted their way through college to get a 4 year degree in something they don't really know shit about because they never experience it themselves! So, I could say the same of you, who have some of the best edjucations, from some of the top Ivy League Schools in the country to spend 6-8 years in schools just to get Dr. infront of your name?
That really doesn't mean shit to me in regards to finding my teen a school that fits their needs.
Kinda like in that movie Good Will Hunting when Matt Damon keeps on fooling all those shrinks (that was hillarious)! Most shrinks don't know shit except how to put a pen to paper, and perscribe you something. That's pretty much all they're good for. Some of the best advice I have gotten in my life, is from people who are older, and have tons of life experience.
So, what I lack in schooling.......I make up ten times over in my lifes experiences, and the fact I just happen to be naturally intelligent doesn't hurt either.
BTW, my programs include Heritage, Outward Bound (basically survival for a week with no food for 3 1/2 days then very little for the rest with only the clothes on our backs hiking 10 miles a day or so through the Southern Utah Area hot as hell during the day, freezing cold at night), a layover at Orems Psychiatric Hospital, back to Heritage, then shipped to Cross Creek, then freed myself by running at the age of 16 to never return. Being on the run, at everyones mercy. Good times, let me tell you!
So, basically what I don't bring to the table in regards to "edjucation", or having a "degree", I bring to the table life experience. If you'd like check my college records, go ahead, and you will find that during my nearly 2 years that I attended J.C. that I took every kind of psychology class that was available to me. Those were basically the classes I did the best in. I have the ability to see through people, and into their souls. If I were meeting you face to face, I would have a pretty good idea of who you were as a person within 5 minutes. I would do that in a way that you'd never even suspect that that was what I was really doing.
What about the hundreds of girls I lived with throughout my years of placement, and all the different personalities I've dealt with. I think I have seen it all, and nothing shocks me. I also know the guys too. Let's face it, I just know it all! Sorry ,I couldn't resist for all of those of you who think I am a conceited bitch!
