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[Che Gookin]

Any updates to be made on this thread?

[Anonymous]

I think many of these so called schools are used as dumping grounds for lost boys from polygamist mormon sects

[Ursus]

There's a small program based in Moyie Springs, Idaho, called Homelines, which is run by former Rocky Mountain Academy staff member Richard Armstrong and his wife. A thread on it can be found HERE.

Armstrong has also been operating an escort/teen transport service called Boundarylines since 1990... And has also taken youth on Alaskan Adventures of some sort (this latter enterprise seems to boil down to Armstrong taking one or two youth at a time ... for a few months of hanging out in the Alaskan wilderness).

In addition to RMA, Armstrong has also worked at the programs Pathfinders Way and Squaw Valley Academy.

In 1999, Richard Armstrong was found guilty in civil court of drugging and raping an employee of his company, Boundarylines. He was ordered to pay this former employee $164,595.

Homelines is on ISAC's Watch List.

[Che Gookin]

Tier 1- Direct linage to CEDU via Ex-Cedu employees or Students

Duckfarm------------------------Founded by or with the help of -------------------------------current ex-CEDU employees/Residents

Benchmark ----------------------Jane Longnecker ---------------------Joesph Powell- Paul Ornaeles(?)
Monarch -------------------------Tim Earle, Steve Rookey-------------------Tim Earle and ?
Carlbrook------------------------Tim Brace -------------------------------Tim Brace and ?
Ventures------------------------ Steve Rookey ------------------------Steve Rookey
Northwest Academy------------ RMA/Redux
Aspen Swift River-------------- Rudy Bentz, Brett and Lisa Carey, Rey and Sharon Kreider
Transitions of Galveston (Phasing out http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/p ... 0706.shtml)
Island
Echo Springs-----------------------Doug Kim Brown-------------------Doug Kim Brown-Lisa Sutton (Thanks bro!)
Ascent (confirmation needed http://www.ascent4teens.com/staff.htm--- mainly need the back story of Ascent. )
Mount Bachelor Academy--------------Tim Brace, Brett and Lisa Carey, Rey and Sharon Kreider
Shortridge Academy--------------------Adam Ranier/Bruce Wilson-------------
Cherokee Creek School----------------Jackson Culotta/Beth Black
               Ron May/Jane May
               Genelle Petry
               David LePere
Coronada ------------------------------ Saul Rudman (program closed down and reopened under new management as New Summit Academy)
Homelines-------------------------------Richard Armstrong


Tier 2- Founders have worked at programs and have had some exposure to CEDU methodology, but are not ex-cedu employees or students.

Aspen Achievement Academy -------- A couple of the founders came from ASR..
New Summit Academy----------- Key members worked with Saul Rudman at Coronada                
               -->Coranada Employees now in charge at NSW:
                  Mario Duran
                  Heather Tracy
                  Andy Myers




**Running Springs is closed. If you know of any staff that has branched off to form their own cults let me know. I'll get them on the Tier 1 list.
***** Ascent.. I need the history and confirmation of any current CEDUites.
***********http://www.shortridgeacademy.com/home.asp?Page=Faculty%20and%20Staff Any of these wankers look familiar?


Updated....

[try another castle]

Che: still no Patrick Stambusky/McKenna listing for Monarch. He founded the place, as far as I know.. not Tim.

[RMA Survivor]

The person Richard Armstrong raped was also a former RMA staff member.  

What is remarkable is how Tim Brace, Steve Rookie, Richard Armstrong, Caroline Wolfe... None of them had college degrees, actual licensing or formal training in any of these emotional therapy areas.  Steve Rookie was hired to be the cook for RMA back in 1985.  Richard Armstrong was a handyman at RMA in 1984.  Not even a real staff member really.  But these people saw the money to be made, which is why they got deeper and deeper in to it all.  

Becoming an escort/bounty hunter?  What nonsense!  Armstrong had no more skill or background or knowledge of that than he did therapy and counseling.  

Brett Carey and Lisa Carey?  These two arrived at RMA in late 84 or early 85 and were the most calm, rational of the staff there at the time.  Polite, friendly and completely innocent.  But that soon changed.  Within months they were "experts".  Soon running raps, helping facilitate propheets.  And no experience in any of this stuff.  It's all Kool-aid drinking and "show me the money!" for these people.

Caroline Wolfe had attended CEDU as a student.  Her background was for sex.  As I recall she was prostituting herself on the streets of LA and her parents didn't like that.  Next thing she is a staff at RMA shortly after it opened in 1982.  Full of anger and self-righteousness, but no training.  Patient one day, doctor the next.  Most high schools had a sex education class.  RMA had Caroline Wolfe.  Every rap, every word out of her mouth was about sex.  All girls were sluts or teases, all guys were looking for a cheap piece of ass and treated all girls as pieces of meat.  But being staff wasn't enough for our new patient-turned doctor.  Caroline Wolfe hooked up with former RMA student Jackie Guber, daughter to the famous Barbara Walters and started their own school.  New Hampshire or Maine was where it was located.  So Jackie too went from being a patient to being a doctor ready to cure teens with her two years of RMA experience under her belt.

Tim Brace?  What a nutcase!  The guy barely had a high school education.  He did horrible, horrible things to himself and others before somehow being sent to RMA to run the show by Mel Wasserman.  And he yelled and screamed all the time.  Yes, he smiled a lot, tried to act all warm and fuzzy, but deep down he was a sadist.  Running a school?  What possible training or schooling or experience did he have?  Zero!  Giving therapy to teens?  Nada!  Professional counseling experience?  Zip!  He was a sadist, running a prison camp.  Even the Nazi's had people with experience in such positions.  Did you ever once hear a single RMA or CEDU staff member professionally diagnose a students actual issues?  Their trauma's?  They weren't TRAINED!!  They had no clue.  They made it up as they went along, constantly adjusting the program, altering propheets, coming up with new catch-phrases to throw around and that was all they were really capable of.  

Russ Decker?  The guy was a bully and admitted it when he arrived at RMA in 1984.  You could see the anger just under the surface every day.  He always jumped in during raps to scream loudest, always with trivial comments but at the loudest volume.  He loved it!  He spoke in every propheet and later every rap about how he had beat the shit out of people all his life.  How his father encouraged it.  And while at RMA, mainly he talked to others about it, not so much to say how he has dealt with it himself, but just to say he had been there, done that.  More like showing off.  He whizzed through RMA, probably one of the biggest "look goods" to grace the school with his presence.  Outside of staff presence he was always the bully, always looking to knock someone down, literally or figuratively.  His cop outs always ate up hours in a proheet.  He had no end to list of shit he had done.  To learn he beat his own step-son?  Yeah!  No surprise there!  Like father, like son!  RMA didn't teach you to deal with it and get better.  These schools reinforced it.  Russ Decker as a staff member?  No different than Caroline Wolfe or her boyfriend Randy Eide.  Randy was also a former CEDU student.  Street fighter, boxer who loved to hurt people.  Made in to a staff member.  

What blows me away is that in my work, everyone is given drug screens, background checks.  They find stuff on you from way back!  But somehow all these totally unqualified staff, with the most wicked backgrounds, manage to find plenty of work around kids.  Could you imagine a normal school hiring one of these people?  The parents in the neighborhood would go berserk!  People would lose their jobs for hiring such deranged, sadistic, criminals, lacking in college degrees and professional backgrounds.  And this goes to show that the Teen Emotional Growth industry has slightly different standards.

[Che Gookin]

Che: still no Patrick Stambusky/McKenna listing for Monarch. He founded the place, as far as I know.. not Tim.

Tier 1- Direct linage to CEDU via Ex-Cedu employees or Students

Duckfarm------------------------Founded by or with the help of -------------------------------current ex-CEDU employees/Residents

Benchmark ----------------------Jane Longnecker ---------------------Joesph Powell- Paul Ornaeles(?)
Monarch -------------------------Patrick Stambusky/McKenna-------------------Tim Earle and ?
                                             Steve Rookey
Carlbrook------------------------Tim Brace -------------------------------Tim Brace and ?
Ventures------------------------ Steve Rookey ------------------------Steve Rookey
Northwest Academy------------ RMA/Redux
Aspen Swift River-------------- Rudy Bentz, Brett and Lisa Carey, Rey and Sharon Kreider
Transitions of Galveston (Phasing out http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/p ... 0706.shtml)
Island
Echo Springs-----------------------Doug Kim Brown-------------------Doug Kim Brown-Lisa Sutton (Thanks bro!)
Ascent (confirmation needed http://www.ascent4teens.com/staff.htm--- mainly need the back story of Ascent. )
Mount Bachelor Academy--------------Tim Brace, Brett and Lisa Carey, Rey and Sharon Kreider
Shortridge Academy--------------------Adam Ranier/Bruce Wilson-------------
Cherokee Creek School----------------Jackson Culotta/Beth Black
Ron May/Jane May
Genelle Petry
David LePere
Coronada ------------------------------ Saul Rudman (program closed down and reopened under new management as New Summit Academy)
Homelines-------------------------------Richard Armstrong


Tier 2- Founders have worked at programs and have had some exposure to CEDU methodology, but are not ex-cedu employees or students.

Aspen Achievement Academy -------- A couple of the founders came from ASR..
New Summit Academy----------- Key members worked with Saul Rudman at Coronada
-->Coranada Employees now in charge at NSW:
Mario Duran
Heather Tracy

[Anonymous]

I was a student at cascade from mid 86 to 1990. Don't ask, I was held back innumerable times, and as the only insurance case I know of at the time I was there, I now think there were alterior motives obviously.  When I got there   there were students named  Grant Price, and  Justin Merritt at cascade.  I can't remember the others I recognized on their website.  These were definitely cascade students.  Anyone else know any info on them?

[Anonymous]

oh sorry grant price and justin merritt was in reference to carlbrook.

[Ursus]

I was a student at cascade from mid 86 to 1990. Don't ask, I was held back innumerable times, and as the only insurance case I know of at the time I was there, I now think there were alterior motives obviously.  When I got there   there were students named  Grant Price, and  Justin Merritt at cascade.  I can't remember the others I recognized on their website.  These were definitely cascade students.  Anyone else know any info on them?

oh sorry grant price and justin merritt was in reference to carlbrook.

Sorry, I'm confused... Are you saying that Grant Price and Justin Merritt (who were both part of the founding lineup at Carlbrook in 2001*) were both students at Cascade School when you were there during 1986-1990?


* Founders & Board of Regents, Carlbrook School (2001):[/b]

Glenn F. Bender, Ph.D., Dean of Academics
Justin J. Merritt J. D., Dean of Faculty and Administration
Jonathan Gurney, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Dean of Advising
Timothy B. Brace, M.A., Dean of Students
R. Grant Price, M.A., Dean of Admissions
Jason L. Merritt, M.D., Consulting Physician[/list]

[try another castle]

I was a student at cascade from mid 86 to 1990. Don't ask, I was held back innumerable times, and as the only insurance case I know of at the time I was there, I now think there were alterior motives obviously.  When I got there   there were students named  Grant Price, and  Justin Merritt at cascade.  I can't remember the others I recognized on their website.  These were definitely cascade students.  Anyone else know any info on them?

oh sorry grant price and justin merritt was in reference to carlbrook.

Sorry, I'm confused... Are you saying that Grant Price and Justin Merritt (who were both part of the founding lineup at Carlbrook in 2001*) were both students at Cascade School when you were there during 1986-1990?


* Founders & Board of Regents, Carlbrook School (2001):[/b]

Glenn F. Bender, Ph.D., Dean of Academics
Justin J. Merritt J. D., Dean of Faculty and Administration
Jonathan Gurney, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Dean of Advising
Timothy B. Brace, M.A., Dean of Students
R. Grant Price, M.A., Dean of Admissions
Jason L. Merritt, M.D., Consulting Physician[/list]

Im pretty sure they were staff. I recall several people saying, right when the carlbrook issue came to light on this forum, that it was started by both ex-cedu and ex-cascade staff.

[Ursus]

I was a student at cascade from mid 86 to 1990. Don't ask, I was held back innumerable times, and as the only insurance case I know of at the time I was there, I now think there were alterior motives obviously.  When I got there   there were students named  Grant Price, and  Justin Merritt at cascade.  I can't remember the others I recognized on their website.  These were definitely cascade students.  Anyone else know any info on them?

oh sorry grant price and justin merritt was in reference to carlbrook.

Sorry, I'm confused... Are you saying that Grant Price and Justin Merritt (who were both part of the founding lineup at Carlbrook in 2001*) were both students at Cascade School when you were there during 1986-1990?


* Founders & Board of Regents, Carlbrook School (2001):[/b]

Glenn F. Bender, Ph.D., Dean of Academics
Justin J. Merritt J. D., Dean of Faculty and Administration
Jonathan Gurney, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Dean of Advising
Timothy B. Brace, M.A., Dean of Students
R. Grant Price, M.A., Dean of Admissions
Jason L. Merritt, M.D., Consulting Physician[/list]

Im pretty sure they were staff. I recall several people saying, right when the carlbrook issue came to light on this forum, that it was started by both ex-cedu and ex-cascade staff.

Mmmmm... Nah, I gonna tentatively go with students.

1.) According to perusal of various "find people" type sites, Justin J. Merritt was born in January of 1969, and R. Grant Price was born in September of the same year. While birth dates from this source have been known to be wrong by a year or two on occasion, even if so, it'd still put them at a kinda young age to be staff (although I could be wrong).

Assuming that the dates are correct (for the time being), if Lena did in fact arrive at Cascade in mid 1986, Merritt would have been 17 and a half, and Price would have been about 16 and three-quarters years old. It is entirely believable that when Lena got there, "there were students named  Grant Price, and  Justin Merritt at cascade.  I can't remember the others I recognized on their website.  These were definitely cascade students."

2.) According to a Carlbrook School Visit Report by Loi Eberle published on Struggling Teens Oct 27, 2003 (visit took place on June 24, 2003), both Kelly Dunbar, Assistant Dean of Admissions, and Grant Price commented on the fact that Carlbrook administration has both a former director and a former student perspective (bold emphasis mine):

Since Carlbrook is a relatively new school, I asked about its origins. Kelly named the founders and deans of this school: Timothy B. Brace, M.A., Dean of Students, Glenn F. Bender, Ph.D., Dean of Academics, Justin J. Merritt J. D., Dean of Faculty; John Henson, M.B.A., Dean of Administration, Jonathan Gurney, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Dean of Advising, Jason L. Merritt, M.D., Consulting Physician and Grant Price, M.A. Dean of Admission. Three of these seven had directed emotional growth programs, and four had been successful graduates from various ones. They had collectively dreamed about creating this school for quite awhile, and eventually solidified their plans and located this property, with its elegant buildings and large grounds, which seems a perfect location.

When Grant joined us on the porch he talked about what it was like to run the school with this team of directors. Grant laughed about the length of some of their meetings, which sometimes were heated discussions between those who had been former directors and those who were the graduates of previous schools. They would closely examine the vision of emotional growth education in theory, and then would hear feedback about what parts of it had actually been effective in practice.[/list]

[Ursus]

I gonna tentatively go with students.

Bear rooting amongst the campground leftovers, continued:



3.) From Classmates.com (couldn't find an entry for Justin Merritt):

Grant Price
Cascade High School
Whitmore, CA
Class of 1988[/list]

4.) Some excerpts from a blog entry by someone who went to Cascade 1988-1992 (age 12-16?). The entry describes going to a book signing for Gone to the Crazies: A Memoir by Alison Weaver (who went to Cascade and wasn't too positive about it), and consequently meeting up with a few other Cascadians, one of whom attended Cascade from 1986-1988.

From The Book Signing. (Sunday, July 29th, 2007) (bold emphasis mine):

...Then again, as I flipped through the pages, there were other people I haven't thought about since I was 14 years old. I wondered what happened to them? Marc had some of the answers. Some people died, drug over doses, or medical conditions. Some were married to each other and had children. Some went on to do great things with their lives. A few of the other students have formed a new school, located in Virginia based on some of the Cascade concepts. We Googled random students names, to find some alarming articles about other Cascade Graduates and some Cascadians have simply dropped off the face of the earth.

I cried, I laughed. I remembered some people with fondness and others with crossness for ripping into me during forums. I saw photos of the students coming out of the 'Summit Workshop' dressed in all white. I saw the 'Dishes Committee' and was vividly reminded of the people who used to put me on Grill every single night. I saw the names of the 'Families' the school was divided into. I had completely forgotten the 'Family' names. I read quotes in yearbook that were used as 'tools' in workshops and celebrations along the way at Cascade. I was reminded of the acceptable music that pumped through the main house on campus. It was a wild journey down memory lane. We took funny pictures and reminisced until 2 am...

<... snip snip ...>

I arrived safely home and tucked into my bed by 330am. But I couldn't sleep. There was still too much going on in my head. Even days later there still is. I am interested in finding out more about the Carlbrook school, located in VA, because I am very curious, since three former Cascade students are on the faculty: John Henson, Justin Merrit, and Grant Price. I am interested in finding other Cascadians. I am dying to do some real research on the evolution of the school, and obtain a detailed version, fact based, about the exact nature of what led to the downfall of Cascade...[/list]

5.) According to one of the comments to the above blog post, Glenn Bender and Kelly Dunbar were also from Cascade:

Re: the school in Virginia, there are a number of people associated with Cascade who are now on faculty there, including Glenn Bender and Kelly Dunbar.[/list]

[Ursus]

Summary of the previous two posts, in case ya can't bear to read through all of it:

Re. current Carlbrook School staff/administrators who were previously at Cascade School:

• Justin J. Merritt and R. Grant Price are former Cascade students

• Other former Cascadians who have ended up at Carlbrook, previous staff vs. student status unknown or uncertain:
  
  
  John Henson (most probably former student)
  Kelly Dunbar (probably former student)
  Glenn Bender

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[Che Gookin]

any updates needed to the CEDUWATCH list?