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Petition to close the abusive Provo Canyon School is gaining
« Reply #360 on: September 11, 2005, 06:01:00 PM »
BULLSHIT!  Provo Canyon School uses solitary  confinement rooms called "obs", cots with a cuff restraint at each corner and belts across the center to hold the kid down, straight jackets, demobilizing drugs, ambush attacks on the child where five+ large staff tackle one small child (called a dial 9), and that's just the physical abuse!  The mental abuse goes on forver, but includes humiliating the child, degrading them, name-calling, false accusations, and there have been many reports of sexual abuse and sexual predators on staff.  If any child grows up into a successful adult, it's only because being locked up in that hell hole gave them a glimpse at eternity, and after being through the worst, having everything stripped from them, and left to "work the program" or suffer, they learn not to take life too seriously, how to appease authority without respecting it, and how to get by in the "training program" of life without buying into the bullshit. It also teaches them not to fear death.
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« Reply #361 on: September 11, 2005, 06:11:00 PM »
Isn't Provo the program that was sued back in the late 80's?  Something about forcing kids to take lie detector tests and submit to a form of coercion known as the "hair dance"?

Way to go Dr. Phil-ter ... referring kids to PCS instead of sending the parents to a shrink for some serious therapy.

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« Reply #362 on: September 11, 2005, 06:41:00 PM »
Provo Canyon School is probably providing free services in exchange for the publicity on Dr.Phil. It's just like game shows where companies give prices away in exchange for the publicity. Only here we are dealing with human life. PCS isn't cheap - over 12 thousand dollars per month. That's more than an IVY legue education. They are extremely concerned about money...
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« Reply #363 on: September 11, 2005, 09:50:00 PM »
Will somebody please tell me, what is a hair dance?????
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« Reply #364 on: September 11, 2005, 09:58:00 PM »
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"Provo Canyon School is probably providing free services in exchange for the publicity on Dr.Phil. It's just like game shows where companies give prices away in exchange for the publicity. Only here we are dealing with human life. PCS isn't cheap - over 12 thousand dollars per month. That's more than an IVY legue education. They are extremely concerned about money..."


Jesus, that was more expensive that CEDU.
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« Reply #365 on: September 12, 2005, 12:26:00 PM »
It's very expensive - $12,500 was the price two years ago - it's probably more like $13,000 per month.  What's more - insurance companies like Value Options are willing to flip the bill.
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« Reply #366 on: September 13, 2005, 01:57:00 AM »
I have become a "successful adult" IN SPITE of PCS...certainly not because of it.

Really, I could write a book about how totally WRONG Provo Canyon is.  It's absolutely dysfunctional; the things I witnessed and experienced were abusive, unethical, and many, many times were illegal.  Not to mention uneffective and unprofessional.
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« Reply #367 on: September 13, 2005, 10:37:00 PM »
As a registered nurse you certainly would know that the things done at Provo Canyon School were in no way therapeutic. Now you know....
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« Reply #368 on: September 13, 2005, 10:39:00 PM »
I was once at this hellish facility, and can not come to terms with have the horrors I witnessed there,  I am thankful that people are working to shut these places down, I have horrible emotional stability and am bordering on suicide, if not for PCS I would not have to face these new far more dangerous emotions.
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« Reply #369 on: September 13, 2005, 11:33:00 PM »
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"I was once at this hellish facility, and can not come to terms with have the horrors I witnessed there,  I am thankful that people are working to shut these places down, I have horrible emotional stability and am bordering on suicide, if not for PCS I would not have to face these new far more dangerous emotions.

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Hi ... welcome to Fornits ... where survivors such as yourself can find solace in knowing you are not alone and people really do care.

Hopefully you can connect with other ex-residents who understand and appreciate your thoughts and feelings.  We are a friendly bunch and welcome you with open arms!

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« Reply #370 on: September 15, 2005, 01:13:00 AM »
close to 600 - this needs to be delivered soon. Also a press release must be issued to all of the major newspapers with several contacts.
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« Reply #371 on: September 25, 2005, 01:04:00 AM »
Abuse, is abuse, is abuse, no matter how it is sugar coded. 99% of the time abuse is mention, there is abuse happening. Close them down.  (Survivor of another school/program)
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« Reply #372 on: October 08, 2005, 10:46:00 PM »
I went to a school/home like this, named New Beginnings Girls Academy. I know what this kind of treatment to children and teenagers will do and how it will scar them for life. I'm going through reconciling right now and have only been out of the home for 1 and a half. I want to see all places that treat and abuse children this way get closed and closed for good.
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« Reply #373 on: October 17, 2005, 09:22:00 PM »
I had a really hard time here, the worst of the WORST was the staff in the disciplinary unit the way they would instigate the kids in to "acting out." It appeared to me (though I was only 13 or 14 and I am now 28) that they (the staff) were doing this to "restrain" us witch consisted of arm bars leg, locks and choke holds. If you are a 13-17 year old from 75-180 lbs. and you have 2-6 staff most of whom were men and 180+ lbs "restraining" a kid what in gods name would compel you to dislocate a child's arm or tackle a child with such force that his face looks like minced meat from carpet burn, so bad that the child wanted to go in to seclusion/isolation so as to avoid the ridicule from other staff and his own peers. Or even the humiliation of having to work off "points" by standing for hrs upon hrs (for weeks or even months!) Now I'm not claiming that much of this happen to me (I did my share of standing) but I did see some dreadful things that I know go against the Geneva Convention and even some laws and these things were perpetrated by the staff the adults WTF Id like to see where some of my peers ended up or how bad that place bent those minds, kids like Smallwood and my buddy Chip and that kid that always had bowel problems (I wish I could remember his name cause he was a good kid and a good friend) If that place is shut down I want to be there when it gets torn down (Id like to see it burn and explode in a ball of fire)
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« Reply #374 on: October 18, 2005, 12:00:00 PM »
Only one more signer to bring the total to 600.
Sign now if you want to be number 600. Thanks. :wave:
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