On 2004-11-04 11:18:00, Deborah wrote:
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What's up with Pegasus. Their facility at least looks clean and sanitary... which obviously says nothing about the 'therapy'. Where do their funds come from to enable them to provide a sanitary facilty?
I lived in central tx for 22 years. It is hotter than hedes in the summer. And you don't get much breeze in the pines. They need fans at the minimum. There's not a parent around who'd send their kid to summer camp to live in those conditions. Now why, is it okay for 'offenders'? The fact is, its not.
Charge what you need to charge, or get out of the business.
And here's the real kicker.... WT was licensed. SOME lame brain from the state licensed this place, as is. Heaven help the kids. The real victims in all this."
Pegasus, I thought their attidude and treatment towards the kids in the area of human relationships was horrid! I thought their way of interacting, bossing around, imposing negative expectations, restricting family contact b/c behaviors, etc...was horrid. By the way, so did the kids who came to me at Woodside, from Pegasus. They got kicked outta Pegasus, and Woodside held on to them and helped them (on multiple account) You see some of those kids have had everyone in their life give up on them, kick them out, abuse them or leave. It's important to give them some consistancy. Then camp got shut down on them. They were hurt, the kids...they left crying, not happy that it was closed, crying b/c their home was gone.
Remember, Deb, the staff lived with the kids in the woods, for a couple of days at a time. We went swimming, played with water hoses, whatever to keep cool. Anyhow, the heat wasn't that unbearable, you're probably just spoiled. The people who pioneered this place, and settled, and lived didn't have AC, they didn't find it that unbearable. I went camping with my family every summer, sometimes for weeks. The heat was never unbearable. We're just conditioned to modern conveniences....not b/c humanity "needs" them. We Americans are just spoiled by our wealth...you know it!
Yes, it was liscensed, and did quality work. I'm sorry you can't wrap your mind around that, but it did. It still would if it could. I know, to those who don't understand the power of what was out there, it's impossible to imagine. Oh well...I had to post a response...Your bashing in inciteful. Have you ever worked with troubled adolescents? Ever experienced the spectrum of RTC's in anything other than news. I'll grant you that there is fucked up shit in the industry...a lot! I've seen it, hell I've done things I wish I'd never done, said hurtful things, been overly aggressive in restraints...shit happens, but that's life. At least in some of the facilities people are truly willing and able to "help" WTTC was a non-profit coorp. Nobody was getting rich, in fact we were all scraping to make ends meet, but we did the job for the kids that we were helping.
Does it mean nothing to you that every single person posting on this sitewho has had personal contact with the people at WTTC has had good things to say about it? That should mean more than a friggin news story! You know better than to trust the news about everything! Oh Well, I'm trying to drop it...enough said.
[ This Message was edited by: Antny on 2004-11-10 18:13 ]