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Steppin' Stone Farm in Florida.
« on: December 06, 2008, 03:39:35 PM »
What is known about Steppin' Stone Farm?

The program seemed to have put so much fear in a girl back 1998 that it ended in tragedy where a mother was killed.

I have not been able to find out how they discipline the girls or how they prevent them from leaving the farm. Articles state that the girls are dragged in kicking and screaming. Such a behavior demand some use of force, so my simple question is?

How does they discipline?
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Re: Steppin' Stone Farm in Florida.
« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2008, 03:47:53 PM »
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How does they discipline?

Ebonics?
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Re: Steppin' Stone Farm in Florida.
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2014, 08:01:27 AM »
The management will close the farm. Parents no longer accept their outdated approach towards the girls:

Quote from: ABC Action News
Farm for troubled teen girls to close its doors

Program has operated in Lithia for over 40 years

LITHIA, Fla. - Steppin' Stone Farm, a haven for troubled teen girls in Lithia, will close for good at the end of 2014, according to its director, Cindy Churchill. The farm has been in operation since 1973.

"We really felt like it was time to go out on a high note," Churchill said.

Churchill, once a teen at the farm herself, said the decision came in December. She said the closure comes in light of dwindling parental reinforcement of the farm's efforts to rehabilitate the teenagers there. She believes parents want the program to babysit their children.
"Close to half of our parents are not really supporting what we're trying to do with their daughters," Churchill said.

Churchill said over 900 have graduated from the program. Donations from sales of the farm's assets are slated to go to Christian homes that care for abused and neglected children in Florida, according to Churchill.