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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Anonymous on October 09, 2007, 06:39:23 PM
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Congress Holds First Hearing on Abuse in Unregulated 'Troubled ...
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... Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz helped spur this investigation with the first book-length expose of this billion-dollar industry, "Help at Any Cost: How ...
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Tue Oct 9 08:24:47 2007 Pacific Time
ADVISORY for 10:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 10
Congress Holds First Hearing on Abuse in Unregulated 'Troubled Teen' Industry; Statistical Assessment Service Author Exposed Quackery and Torture Across America
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Deaths from medical neglect and other severe child abuse in teen "wilderness programs" "boot camps" "emotional growth boarding schools" and other residential facilities will be the subject of a first ever Congressional hearing this week. On Oct. 10, the House Education and Labor Committee, chaired by Representative George Miller (D-CA), will hold a full committee investigative hearing.
Parents of adolescents who have died in these programs will testify and the Government Accountability Office will present its findings from a recent investigation of the industry. Seven boot camp guards and a nurse are currently on trial for manslaughter in the death of one boy in Florida.
Statistical Assessment Service Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz helped spur this investigation with the first book-length expose of this billion-dollar industry, "Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids" (Riverhead Books, 2006), which detailed the horrifying abuse, medical ignorance, and neglect that caused thousands of injuries and dozens of deaths. It is the only book to comprehensively cover this subject. She will attend the hearing and be available to the media.
Your dog has more protection than your child
A federal law protects mule deer from harassment -- but teens held in these programs do not even have the right to contact their parents or law enforcement or be free from food deprivation, sleep deprivation, isolation, restraint and other severe punishments.
Most parents are unaware that in many states, dog kennels and nail salons are more highly regulated than the health and safety of children in these institutions.
Where state regulation exists, enforcement is lax. Anyone -- including convicts -- can open a program; no qualifications are required.
Szalavitz has continued to investigate this highly profitable industry, exposing the spurious treatment practices and abuses for STATS and other publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reason, and the American Prospect.
WHAT: House Education and Labor Committee Investigative Hearing on "Cases of Child Neglect and Abuse at Private Residential Treatment Facilities."
WHO: Media availability, author and expert Maia Szalavitz
WHEN: Hearing is Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 10:30 a.m. EDT.
Szalavitz will be in Washington DC for the hearing and available either there or in New York afterwards.
WHERE: Committee Hearing Room
2175 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Szalavitz direct cell phone: 646-322-4613
About STATS: Since its founding in 1994, the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) has become a much-valued resource on the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media. Our goals are to correct scientific misinformation in the media resulting from bad science, politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge; and to act as a resource for journalists and policy makers on major scientific issues and controversies. For more information, contact Trevor Butterworth at 202-841-2868 or visit http://www.stats.org (http://www.stats.org).
Media Contact: See above.
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TO ALL INVOLVED:
Thank you so very damn much for such the short notice.
Noone including myself has had time to request off of work to even think about going to Washington to check this out or whatever.
I also would really like to know why there are only Child victims parents testifying????
WHY?
Are these children dead? If they are not why are they not allowed to be heard...and why on earth would past survivors of similar places not be allowed to go and testify. After all dont we need to establish a consistant pattern of a failed industry, that has been happening for decades now???? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?
Also, why is it that when I called George Millers office personally in the middle of AUGUSTof this year his office informed me that nothing was in the works to revisit HR 1738. ????? Why is that?
So then I called the GAO and informed them of this stuff and that they should look into it. Maybe they did??? I dunno.
I am extremely upset about this whole thing right now, seriously.
I have a lot of "WHY" right now!
Why is it that the hearing says it is hearing unregulated programs???
Why is it that they are not seemingly investigating Regulated programs? One in particular Kids helping Kids....."state licensed "/ "approved"....WHYWHYWHY??????????/
Someone? , anyone?.......Bueller?.......Bueller?........Bueller?
pissed off and upset,
-DP
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This is going to sound really preachy...And for that I apologize if you take offense. But It was the first thing that came to mind when I read your passionate plea.
"Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him from God."
1 Corinthians 4:5
hence.....
Judge no man before his time.
Sorry you are feeling so frustrated. I can understand, though I am working towards striking this whole thing up as experiance.
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This is going to sound really preachy...And for that I apologize if you take offense. But It was the first thing that came to mind when I read your passionate plea.
"Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him from God."
1 Corinthians 4:5
hence.....
Just no man before his time.
Sorry you are feeling so frustrated. I can understand, though I am working towards striking this whole thing up as experiance.
Hey, thanks for being sensative with me, I appreciate it.
It didn't sound preachy to me, I could tell that ye meant well.
Ye are correct, what comes around goes around , basically.
I am just really trying to wrap my head around what is going on with this hearing right now.
thanks for your insight,
-DP
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Your welcome.
Sorry I had to edit, caught a speeling oops.
I hope you are able to be at peace today and not overly anxious, but just know that either way things go, today you are a whole person.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Philippians 4:6
This is my mindset today. For myself I need to be focused and move on. I had the best intention o fwriting my Story, My Testimony, but I just couldn't. The past few weeks have just been a flood; and to put it on paper was just giving it too much power for me.Giving it life. I wasn't just in one facility but several. So there are many directions my mind goes.
But for those that are strong and in process of healing I hope each one of their stories gets to the appropriate people and hearts would be swayed.
Good Morning
~Chris
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Sorry, I am with DP's first post in regard to this congressional hearing. This is something we all have patiently waited on. This is the sunlight being shed on a sleazy, corrupt group off people, abusing children and ripping off gullible parents. And why were we not informed until the morning of it taking place?
This person, Maia Szalavitz who was damn near praised in this forum for her efforts did squat to inform us of this event. Seems she knew that this hearing was gonna go down, and to me it seems that some type of information could have been trickled down to us lowly survivors. I for one could have been there!
Apparently these hearings were surrounding the “Boot Campâ€
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So how did the hearings go? What's the upshot?
Is the bill gonna get passed?
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Y'know it really is interesting to me that for years and years we have wanted some sort of steps to be taken in the direction of stopping the continued sort of abuse that we endured so long ago. Finally, it appears that there is some sort of action by way of this congressional hearing that includes parents of children that died while in treatment, again these kids DIED WHILE IN TREATMENT. It takes a bitchy sort of nerve for DP and Woof to rant about being pissed that they were not sent some sort of engraved invitation to witness or be involved in the hearings. How important do you two really think you are? You are simply two of tens of thousands of ex-teens that experienced abuse while in "rehab."
Do you really expect Maia to be your personal liason to what is going on politically regarding the federal regulation of adolescent rehabilitation facilities? Even if you never hear a word from her, is it not enough that she was published and exposed STRAIGHT specifically for what it was? Have you not even read the book? Maybe you should stay abreast of what is really going on out there and involve yourself rather than read a few posts here and shit-rant and bitch about not being included.
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Y'know it really is interesting to me that for years and years we have wanted some sort of steps to be taken in the direction of stopping the continued sort of abuse that we endured so long ago. Finally, it appears that there is some sort of action by way of this congressional hearing that includes parents of children that died while in treatment, again these kids DIED WHILE IN TREATMENT. It takes a bitchy sort of nerve for DP and Woof to rant about being pissed that they were not sent some sort of engraved invitation to witness or be involved in the hearings. How important do you two really think you are? You are simply two of tens of thousands of ex-teens that experienced abuse while in "rehab."
Do you really expect Maia to be your personal liason to what is going on politically regarding the federal regulation of adolescent rehabilitation facilities? Even if you never hear a word from her, is it not enough that she was published and exposed STRAIGHT specifically for what it was? Have you not even read the book? Maybe you should stay abreast of what is really going on out there and involve yourself rather than read a few posts here and shit-rant and bitch about not being included.
Yes, finally the day came.
Agreed, these were parents of those who "Died in Treatment". Those that died or committed suicide are the unfortunate minority and respects are due to THEM. Now, what of the walking wounded? What of tens of thousands that endured the abuse? What of the relationships that have failed, because of behaviors taught by Straight Inc? What of destroyed family relationships because of Straight? Now numbers of those affected by Straight Inc. are raised considerably more than the “tens of thousandsâ€