On June 18, 1993, three days before Straight official Kathleen M. Cone created a Straight-like program named Phoenix Adolescent Institute in Marietta, Ga. just 4 ½ miles from the Straight facility in Marietta, former Straight official Helen Gowanny helped found Pathway Family Center only 15 miles from the old Straight facility near Detroit. Pathway Family Center is the second program which has adopted many of Straight's non-destructive methods to have an expansion program. It recently expanded into Indianapolis. Miller Newton's KIDS program was the other. Dr. Newton, who now calls himself Father Casius, had been the national clinical director for the Straights. KIDS closed down all over the country under allegations of child abuse. Like Straight, Inc. Pathway has received good press coverage as in this DetroitNow Channel 7 News (ABC) report in 2001 at
http://www.detnow.com/news/0102151102.html and the accompanying video at
http://real.scripps.com:8480/ramgen/wxy ... 2151102.rm . As with all Straights there were allegations of child absue at Straight-Detroit and Straight-Atlanta.
Wes Fager
