"AARC was established in 1992 and is an original model, utilizing a unique therapeutic process. It is based on the doctoral research conducted by Dr. Dean Vause and approved by his clinical and doctoral committees. As Executive Director of AARC, Dr. Vause reports to a governing board that is made up of some of Calgary's most accomplished business and professional people."
http://www.aarc.ab.ca/index.phpIf AARC is an original model, is it just coincidence that after leaving Kids, the Wiz brought the use of host homes to isolate the Newcomers, the use of Peer counselors, the use of raps, the confrontational group therapy and the phased structure used in Kids to AARC?
Since the Wiz was working at Kids as late as 1990, opened AARC in 1992, and got his Union Institute PhD in 1994, on what research was Kids based? If we accept Janne Holmgren's premise that Kids was not a treatment centre, then the Wiz's time spent there could not have been research on treatment. Since he was was running the AARC facility from 1992 on, it is an impossibility for him to be conducting research on which to base the program, since the program was already in existence.
