Alright, folks, just because "a group of parents and staff members [from the Pathways Family Center that just closed] have been meeting independently to try and continue the lifesaving work that dramatically changed young lives," [1] doesn't mean they are starting up Straight Incorporated all over again, even though that is how Straight Incorporated keeps getting started up all over again. So, what I think is fair is, if everyone could please simply
call them to ask, nicely, some nice questions about the new outpatient treatment center, such as, what time of day you could be expected to drop off and pick up both your child and the children on lower phases whom you were hosting overnight, how long you could hold the raffle prize check in your hand as a winner before turning it back over to the CRC, and whether or not they needed new stationery or were they just going to use the old Straight stationery and cross out Straight and write in Changes Recovery Center, to save trees and stuff.
I really think it would be more fair to ask them if they
know that the term "therapeutic community" is pretty much a tag for a cult, and if the kids on the front page of their website are representative of what your kid could expect when enrolled, i.e., with respect to motivating and/or wearing adornments while motivating. [2]
Now, I know this all sounds rather silly, and it is actually more conceivable that Froderick is pulling everyone's leg and put up a few fake sites, so if anyone wants to check them out for validity, here are the links:
1.
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local Teen_Addiction_Program_Shut_Unexpectedly
2.
http://www.changesrecoverycenter.orgTo make things easier for you to call them and then come back here and entertain me with what you found out when you called, here is the number from the fox detroit article: 248-552-8111. There's no one there right now, or else they were all at lunch, so,
Also, Pathways Family Center is imploring people on their website, that's pathwaysfamilycenter.org, to call them 24 hours a day, 1-800-261-4605.
Or, if you don't want to run up their 1-800 phone bill, you could call them on another one of their lines:
MICHIGAN
Village Office Center
23100 Providence Drive
Suite 300
Southfield, MI 48075
(248) 443-0105
(248) 443-0111 - fax
INDIANA
Castleton Park
6405 Castleway Court
Suite 102
Indianapolis, IN 46250
317-585-6953
317-585-9369 (fax)
OHIO
6070 Branch Hill-Guinea Pike
Milford, OH 45150
(513) 575-7300
(513) 575-7306 (fax)
NW INDIANA
804 Canonie Drive
Porter, IN. 46304
(219) 926-2583
(219) 926-1833
