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Press Release - Benchmark Young Adult School Loses Lawsuit
Anonymous:
Well. Benchmark has published their declarations.
http://www.benchmarkyoungadultschool.co ... -lies.html
psy:
Can't Say i'm particularly surprised they published all their declarations, but I won't be commenting on what they said for the time being. The only documents I'll produce in response is a second declaration from E. Block explaining a little more about the first as well as one from my father.
http://www.fornits.com/psy/DECLARATION_ ... dacted.pdf
http://www.fornits.com/psy/WHC_SUPP_Decl.pdf
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "psy" ---I won't be commenting on what they said for the time being.
--- End quote ---
I will!
It's a bunch of empty shit. Desperate programmies are desperate.
Anonymous:
The school may have cleaned its act up some, but one wonders how much. The "primary counseling staff" are all "certified" by ACSTH, which is linked to Narconon (a known Scientology "brand name"), and which lists its business address as being in the same building as the L. Ron Hubbard Library on Hollywood Boulevard.
Private agency (as opposed to government agency) certification is typical in the substance abuse field. The better-regarded CAADAC certification is given by a private agency, after a two-year course at a public junior college. But as is the case with the ACSTH "life counselor" certification (following a much less rigorous course of study than for the CAADAC), it is recognized by the state of California.
Benchmark operates under state Dept. of Consumer Affairs licensure as a "California Sober Living Program." The CSLP is, in my direct experience, very poorly monitored by the CDCA, which really doesn't monitor so much as it responds to inquiries, investigations and consumer complaints. CSLP is actually fairly typical of mental health oversight in general: it's not proactive.
All that said, Benchmark is no worse in my indirect experience than are many of the residential mental health facilities in this region, and actually quite a bit better than a number of them. Sigh.
psy:
--- Quote from: "not.moses" ---The school may have cleaned its act up some, but one wonders how much. The "primary counseling staff" are all "certified" by ACSTH
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You have a source for that? I think You're misreading their website where they say "They have been credited with 30 hours of Approved Coach Specific Training Hours (ACSTH) as recognized by the International Coach Federation (ICF)." All I see is that they're certified to have supposedly taken 30 hours of training by the ICF (according to Benchmark), though I can find none of their staff on a search on the ICF website (apparently they didn't earn any credentials).
See for yourself
Type these names:
http://www.benchmarkyoungadultschool.co ... elors.html (lol.. note the url)
in here:
http://www.coachfederation.org/find-a-c ... directory/
It's a program. Make sure you double check their claims *all the time*. Where they're not outright full of shit, they're misleading you.
Here was their press release on the subject:
http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/p ... 1008.shtml
You don't think that's just a tiny bit misleading?
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