Pathway Family Center (a.k.a.) Kids Helping Kids (a.k.a.) Straight Inc. would like to issue a response to our critics:
We are glad you are interested in Pathway Family Center regarding your child’s normal teenage behavior because without desperate, gullible parents like you - it would be impossible to keep raking in the money the way we do. The singular goal of Pathway is to provide young people with a nervous breakdown by using age old techniques of thought reform once used to change beliefs and ideas of American POW’s in the Korean War. We are confident that we can free your child of their healthy developing mind, as we have done for so many young people.
As you learn more about Pathway, you may come upon negative information from a large, well educated group of people. They correctly claim that Pathway engages in inappropriate and abusive treatment programs and provide other vital and important information. To our knowledge, many of these people have been victims of an identical treatment model to which we subject our clients. Our attempts to have a dialogue with these people have not been successful due to our own fear that we will be exposed as the child torturers that we are. If you have any questions regarding our program, please ask one of these people, unless you would rather hear lies, in which case one of our representatives would be happy to mislead you. We can also place you into contact with several of our graduates and/or graduate parents so that you might have a narrow and biased view from those who haven’t been able to shake the thought reform modality.
Some have suggested that Pathway take legal action against these individuals. However, if we were to do that, the truth about our operation could easily be exposed causing us many problems and possibly loss of revenues and eventually closure. We also understand that legal action can be very expensive. We prefer to dedicate our resources to the recruitment of new parents (members) so that our organization (cult) might flourish. The following information provides additional information regarding our program and success rates.
Pathway Family Center has provided high-quality thought reform techniques based on the Straight Inc. model since 1993. Our program is based on the Straight Inc. model of addiction as well as perverting the 12 steps of Alcoholic's Anonymous to appear more legitimate. We use a combination of abuse, torture and brainwashing, which involves to some extent the patient’s entire family. Our success is attributed to our refined, deception skills and our team of charlatans, consisting of Masters level compulsive liars, magicians, bad cops and snake oil salesmen.
In 2001, Dr. John Franklin of the University of Detroit Mercy College of Education and Human Services, conducted a highly flawed and completely unscientific study on our outcome success rate. To be honest, we have no idea if there is any success rate at all, but who cares, because at the end of the day we have all of that money from the parents and that’s what it’s all about… right?
The Pathway program was put on probation and subsequently dropped altogether by the Council On Accreditation. But who needs them when there are cheaper, more corrupt accrediting agencies like: the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) and licensing agencies in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana who were put in place to protect us while appearing to regulate us. In more than 15 years of operation, there has never been a lawsuit filed against Pathway for any reason, including the alleged mistreatment of a patient. However, we carefully left out the part about all of the complaints that have been filed against us. It is a good thing we have judges and politicians in our pocket or we might have to face our day in court.
We would like to clear up a few misconceptions:
1.) We are the same program as we have always been.
2.) We abuse kids because we have no conscience and we are sociopaths by definition.
3.) We are not interested in helping kids get off drugs, as a matter of fact, most of the kids we treat have no real problems at all until we get done with them.
4.) We love money and power. It makes us feel safe because if we aren’t in complete control of our little world we are very scared and we cry.
5.) Confidentiality is just a way that we hide our horrible abuse. No talking behind backs is another way.
6.) Honesty is a clever way we get the kids to confess to things they haven’t done making the parents feel as if their decision was correct.
7.) We always lie to parents and if we can sell the disease concept to them we usually can count on getting their money.
8.) We don’t allow communication in the beginning so the kid becomes acclimated and brainwashed, that stuff about removing them from a toxic environment is just bullshit so parents don’t ask questions.
We hope this information is helpful and encourage you to address any concerns you may have with one of those people who have managed to survive one of these programs despite being completely psychologically broken. They are a tenacious lot and aggravate us to no end. We look forward to ruining your child and taking your money.
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