What's in a name?

[ajax13]

As further evidence of the criminal nature of AARC, let's look at the name:  Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre.  As part of the Wizard's hamfisted efforts to avoid any lawful oversight of this scam, Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre is the name of the charitable organization.  Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre operates a treatment centre.  I don't know what that treatment centre is called, or where it is located, but AARC admits that it exists.  So these are definitely two distinct entities.  The organization, and the treatment centre.
Now AARC says that the board manages the business affairs of AARC, since the board is made up of the Society members.  But "day to day operation of the Society is the responsiblity of the Executive Director".  That's the Wizard.  But nowhere do they mention this treatment centre and who runs that.  
To use the vernacular, what a fucking crook.

[Botched Programming]

As anyone can see........ This is the same monster just with a different name.... It has the same structure as "Straight Inc.","Kids Helping Kids", "Growing Together", "The Seed", etc.

As far as "Ownership" goes, terrible people seem to group together in the name of a dollar. People like Mel Sembler who opened Straight seem to shut the doors when the heat is on and pass the concept to someone else and open under a new name. I'm sure he gets some type of financial kick back off of these programs, even if the name is AARC and in Canada.

Any parent who gets involved seems to fall for the same old tired lie that their child is going to die if they don't get them help. Once a parent bites on this scam their mind is open to the brainwashing.

Out of all honesty..... I wonder how parents like being a type of correctional officer and their homes a sort of prison? Kids who go in don't get to stay at their home in the first part of treatment and are held at one of the other parents homemade prison.

Kids locked in a room at a certain time. The door locked from the outside and the windows screwed or nailed shut.... God forbid there is a fire. And There are no clothes

Kids not allowed to talk, communicate with family or friends unless they are under surveillance of one of their brainwashed peers. If anything is said against the way things are running the child is taken into group and confronted heavily....(If this is not mental abuse, what is???)

What part of what they do is teaching how to live a happy life. If anything it causes the child to have trust issues, not be able to make a decision without questioning. There is no independence in having to rely on others to make decisions. And most of us know life is full of decisions that require us to go on what we believe inside.

Again I say.... you can take a snake out of the grass, put a fur coat on it and guess what, You still have a damned snake. And that's what these programs are. Just snakes with different fur coats.

[Anonymous]

In a post on another site I asked:

(quote)I've talked to two different people who have told me that when they were admitted to AARC they had to take a delousing shower even though they didn't have lice and they had to sign their paperwork before being allowed to dress.

Did this happen to you guys too?

What exactly do they mean by "Confrontational Therapy"?

Why are clients not allowed to use the bathroom without an escort?

Why are kids not permitted to talk to their parents? Other treatment centers who's focus is on "rebuilding families" allow the clients to talk to their parents. Parents are aware that treatment is tough and their kids are likely to try to manipulate their way out. But ... they are STILL allowed to talk to them.

Why doesn't anyone answer my questions?

I would ask my son directly but I haven't been allowed to talk to him for almost 2 months.(quote)

Someone sent me a private message saying:

(quote) You might as well take your kid out if your not happy and cant talk to him. Yes the shower thing happens with the guys too.
They want to strip you of everything you got to make you nothing so you can focus on your problem with alcohol and drugs. if that answers your bathroom question or not.
you cant talk because they want to rehab both sides parents and kids before putting them together to have a conversation and conversations are always supervised etc...
i hope that helps answer your questions (quote)

Yeah... that totally answered my questions.

[Anonymous]

Yes, delousing showers are taken i believe. but it isnt so that they can "strip them down and have them focus on their drug and alcohol problem..." its because there are 100ish people involved with the place and if everyone to get lice... it would be REALLY distruptive to the treatment.

Yes guys too.

Confrontational therapy (i think) means that they try to pretty much provide a reality check for the youth. They tell them how much drugs and alcohol have messed up their life.

Clients arent allowed to use the bathroom without an escort because on the way to the bathroom the kid might run. What all the anti-aarc people dont tell you is that nobody goes into (a personal) bathroom with them. Nobody watches them go to the bathroom, they stand outside the door, and wait for them to get out.

Kids are permitted to talk to their parents, the people here are completely full of it on that one. For one week kids arent to talk to their parents because the parents and kids are so pissed off at eachother, they might harm eachother, and if they were to speak to eachother it wouldnt be very productive. Also, drug addicts are CON ARTISTS. The drug addict client would probably tell their parents anything to make them sign them out of treatment, and the parents love their kid and want to take away his/her pain so bad they would.

After that week the kids are allowed to talk to their parents at every meeting about times that they have used, and on grad nights (usually once a week or twice maybe) they can talk about whatever they want (with limitations on a few things like the client's drug addict friends and such.)

After about 1/3 of the treatment, the child is allowed to go home completely and they live with the rest of their family, they can talk freely and everything like that all the time.

[Anonymous]

Kids are permitted to talk to their parents, the people here are completely full of it on that one. For one week kids arent to talk to their parents because the parents and kids are so pissed off at eachother, they might harm eachother, and if they were to speak to eachother it wouldnt be very productive. Also, drug addicts are CON ARTISTS. The drug addict client would probably tell their parents anything to make them sign them out of treatment, and the parents love their kid and want to take away his/her pain so bad they would.

After that week the kids are allowed to talk to their parents at every meeting about times that they have used, and on grad nights (usually once a week or twice maybe) they can talk about whatever they want (with limitations on a few things like the client's drug addict friends and such.)

I brought my kid in there, we were happy, had a great lunch not even CLOSE to harming each other. My kid was in JAIL for 3 months so not even close to needing any kind of detox. I was told I could talk to him in a week.

I hardly consider hearing an episode of drug/alcohol use in the company of an oldcomer and his family, and then hugging and telling my kid I love them "conversation"!!!!

"Open conversation" on grad night is a joke. If you venture into things like how treatment is going, if they're doing ok, do they need anything, the conversation is shut down, and the client is lead away! Happened twice to me! So, you can't talk about the past, present or future. Wow! GREAT conversation.