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Wow, obama is going to win
Miss Antsy Pam:
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I guess it would be too much to ask you to list the schools that your company has on their DNR list? If you don't ask, you never know!
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Miss Antsy Pam, I know it wasn’t you and didn’t mean to imply that. I have one of those troll thingies hanging on me. I don’t refer to the places he/she is mentioning. At least they are not on my list. I know that I cannot reveal the names of the schools, but I can tell you the types of things we put schools and programs on the list for
But Just pulling up a few on the screen jogs my memory.
1) Not returning money due parents whose child was removed from a school for medical reasons.
2) Program misled agency. Audit findings: Program therapist was not licensed, nor had a background consistent with what was needed to work with children. There was a doctor who prescribed medications but had no mental health training. Had several law suits pending and was working with an expired out of state license.
12R/Academy
3) Program sued 2 of our parents for breach of contract for pulling children out of school. Children needed immediate medical treatment outside the realm of what the school could provide and advertised as such. We intervened on their behalf and were able to get the school to compensate for their loss and then the school sued us.
4) One place required some unethical practice before we received a commission. I never received the details on this one.
5) Academy. An all girls program insured us that they perform cory checks on all employees, but when we got there they had no records. They had unauthorized males walking freely on the premises and the girls had very minimal privacy. We were given a tour of the facility and living quarters, there was 1 male on our audit team and the person giving the tour entered various dorm rooms (in use) and one shower area (in use) unannounced without knocking. It was clear that the girls were not given time to prepare or dress properly. The person giving the tour seemed annoyed with my questions, didn’t know who the males were in the hallway and suggest we submit any further questions in writing. Their program initially seemed solid but the ones insuring us of this were off site when we got there and we never met them. We never referred to them, this was the initial visit. They did respond with a letter of apology and terminated the person giving the tour. They are not open anymore and we reported all the findings to the authorities.
6BT/School
6) 3 programs engaged in unethical payment structuring.
7)Misc: Several programs had poor post graduation follow-up interviews. 2 students lost a considerable amount of weight which was never documented by the program. One child had 2 teeth removed without the parents consent. One child had stitches in their scalp but no documentation of a doctors visit, but the parents were invoiced $700 for medical procedure and transportation costs. 4 children were forced to eat pork. 1 child had extreme dental decay. 3 children exhibited self inflicted wounds on their legs and or arms. 7 children who were on the wrong medication. 1 child will only sleep in a dirty basement of the house. 1 child with an incarcerated hernia which required immediate hospitalization and surgery. One child suffering from extreme depression and required in-patient evaluation. 3 attempted suicides( under the age of 16). 17 children ran away post graduation. 5 children reported chronic truancy. 12 families experienced divorce with child living with relatives. 47 parents invoiced for damages to dorm rooms and common areas.etc.
All of our information is reported to the local authorities, board of education, DSS or equivalent etc. and various other agencies. We share this information with other referral agencies also. But I don’t think it is something we can legally make public. Most of the info is old, places shut down or problems have been resolved.
We don’t give second chances (or reaudits) to the problem schools unless there has been a total change in management and staff otherwise how can you trust them to do what they say they do, on paper, after we leave. It is very rare to take someone off the list. Our success is heavily based on trust because we cannot be with the child during their stay there and we know we are responsible for the child and their family.
Oh my,after reading all of this again I have some second thoughts about how we do things, although I do support the good work we do, I think we could do things a little differently. I wish we could have prevented more of this from happening instead of reacting to it. I didn’t realize there was so much, makes me think a little I admit, there is more but I don’t want to think about it right now. We have pages and pages of testimonies from kids who are better off because of our placements. Much more than the kids and families I listed above and none of what I listed will reoccur because we don’t send kids to them anymore.
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Thank you Kathy for your very detailed reply....it is very much appreciated!
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