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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones => Topic started by: AuntieEm on October 23, 2007, 06:34:32 PM

Title: CEDU/Brown/UHS 2005-Present
Post by: AuntieEm on October 23, 2007, 06:34:32 PM

Hi,

I would like to hear more from survivors who attended Boulder Creek Academy (merged with Rocky Mountain Academy in 2005), Ascent, or Northwest Academy in the recent past, late 2005 - present.

I am trying to get a handle on what has changed or remained the same  since they were acquired by Universal Health Services--based on personal accounts from those who have been there. I can tell there are many of the same staff members, including the director and ed. director, but am looking for more info on the program itself.

I have looked at the Daily Schedule at the BCA site http://https://www.bouldercreekacademy.net/campus/dailyschedule.pdf (I believe I found that thanks to Covergaard) and can see they are still using terms like "raps" and "last light" (and christ what a lot of chores you kids had to do, and never sleeping in, and having nearly every minute of time scheduled -- so sorry you had to go through that).

I'd really appreciate firsthand accounts from those who were there recently.

Some are suggesting that the CEDU schools have "shut down." See, for example, Sept/Oct 2007 edition of Mother Jones Magazine, article entitled "School of Shock." (It's mostly about The Rotenberg Center in Canton, Mass.--be careful, my friends, it's very disturbing.) Online edition is by subscription only or I would post a link, but you can find it at http://http://www.motherjones.com for a fee. "Shut down" is, of course, only half true; CEDU was sold to UHS, who near as I can tell are operating the schools using the same program model as before. Do any of you know details?

Thanks,

AuntieEm

Title: CEDU/Brown/UHS 2005-Present
Post by: try another castle on October 23, 2007, 09:32:50 PM

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can see they are still using terms like "raps"

 :o

Interesting... When I cold-called NWA, the admissions people said that they are no longer called that, and are instead called "groups".

Although, I looked at the website about a month or so ago, and it looked like they just put up the old website when it was a brown school, with just a few minor changes regarding ownership disclaimers at the bottom. It could be that they simply didn't catch that mistake.

Mistake being two possible things, that is. One scenario is that they only want to put off the image of calling them groups, and forgot to hide that bit of revealing information that they are still called raps. Or, it could be a mistake in the sense that they honestly do call them groups now and just forgot to change it on the website.

No secret what my vote is for.