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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: ajax13 on July 20, 2008, 03:35:36 PM
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AARC never did quite get around to meeting the requirements for licensure. No license to this day, 18 years later.
"MS M. LAING: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are to
the chairman of the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission. AADAC is a world-
renowned agency, and we applaud the
announcement yesterday of its new day treatment programs for adolescents. Last November the Premier announced a $ 600,000 start-
up grant to a private organization called Kids of the
Canadian West to implement an American program, an action
contrary to the chairman's July 1989 commitment to devise
made-
in-
Alberta programs that provide a range of addiction
treatment services to meet the needs of all Alberta youth. My question is: why did the chairman not simply request AADAC
to develop a complementary treatment program for those most
difficult cases? I have a copy of the speech here to file.
MR. NELSON: Mr. Speaker, first of all, we're extremely proud that AADAC has put together a made-
in-
Alberta program that
is facilitating most of our youth and will have the capacity to extend to most of the youth in Alberta a program that they will be able to access to become well and also be educated. Of
course, we'll have programs that will, through education, be able to prevent children getting involved in addiction to the extent that we wish them not to. That commitment was made by the
government and that commitment is now in place.
Secondly, Mr. Speaker, we've indicated all along that AADAC
does not necessarily have programs that can accommodate every child in the province. As such, Kids of the Canadian West approached AADAC to see if we would be able to support them
in some way, and through an extensive examination of the
program and the people involved in Calgary with Kids of the Canadian West, we asked the government to assist in supplying an equal amount of dollars, on a one-
time funding only, to those
moneys that would be raised from the private sector by Kids of the Canadian West. The Kids of the Canadian West program is self-
financing from that point on. We have the checks and
balances in place. We still support the program, and we believe that there is a place in our community to have Kids of the Canadian West function as a tremendous tool in conjunction with AADAC's programs to enhance our young people in
Alberta.
MS M. LAING: Well, Mr. Speaker, AADAC has a reciprocal
agreement with a treatment program in Yorkton for hard-
to-
treat youth that only costs transportation, while in the U. S. the Kids program has been surrounded by controversy with allegations of emotional and physical abuse, unlawful confinement,
and violation of basic human rights. The chairman has said that he has
put in place the checks and balances that will encourage and offer a program in Alberta that meets with the laws of this land and also the integrity of the people that will utilize this program. This is a quote from Hansard. My question to the chairman is: how exactly will AADAC thoroughly and effectively monitor this program?
MR. NELSON: Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to
discuss the program certainly. First of all, we do have a
relationship with White Spruce in Saskatchewan, and we have a reciprocal agreement between the western provinces as announced by the Premier's Conference in British Columbia a
couple of years ago. We are working with, and sending adolescents to, White Spruce, those who wish to attend, but at the
same time they in Saskatchewan have the same opportunity to
send young people to AADAC's programs. Mr. Speaker, we
have a signed agreement with the principals of the Kids of the Canadian West with reference to evaluation of the program, evaluation of the finances. They will be licensed in such a
fashion . . .
MR. SPEAKER: Forgive me, Edmonton-
Jasper Place and
Stony Plain. Perhaps you could carry on the conversation at the back. Thank you.
MR. NELSON: We believe sincerely, Mr. Speaker, that the
checks and balances and the integrity of those people who will operate the program in Calgary, because of their involvement in the community and not wishing to have that damaged through
a program that is not in keeping with the integrity of the laws of this province and our land – the program in Calgary, Kids of the Canadian West, will function as an add-
on to AADAC's very
fine and made-
in-
Alberta program, and our children of this
province will be well looked after. In fact, Mr. Speaker, we now have and will have in place in this province access to addictions programs unparalleled anywhere in Canada and probably in
North America."
http://isys.assembly.ab.ca:8080/isysquery/irl1940/4/doc (http://isys.assembly.ab.ca:8080/isysquery/irl1940/4/doc)
Far from being self-financing, AARC has stolen millions of dollars of tax-payer's money.
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My question is: why did the chairman not simply request AADAC
to develop a complementary treatment program for those most
difficult cases?
This is what really gets me - the kids who go to AADAC are probably more difficult cases than many of the kids who end up in AARC. I was diagnosed at AADAC as NOT addicted - not even "mildly." Somehow I doubt that I was the only one who accidentally ended up among the "worst of the worst" at AARC.
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"•In 1989 members of the Calgary Downtown Rotary Club became interested in the treatment of adolescent drug users. Many Calgary adolescents were being sent to KIDS Inc., a treatment facility in New Jersey. The Rotary Club was concerned that there were no programs in Canada and believed that a facility providing intensive treatment for adolescent drug users should be established in Calgary. After considerable investigation, the Club identified negative aspects of the KIDS Inc. treatment model.
Dr. Ronald Dougan, a Registered Psychologist in the Province of Alberta, visited KIDS of Bergen County in 1989, on behalf of the Calgary Downtown Rotary Club. He was a member of the committee which hired Dr. Vause, and served as a consultant on Dean's doctoral committee. He says of the AARC program:
“We very conscientiously and intentionally designed a program that was very different from the KIDS Inc. model.”
http://www.aarc.ab.ca/qa.php#q2 (http://www.aarc.ab.ca/qa.php#q2)
The Rotary Club gave Kids $600 000, which Jim Dinning ensured was matched with Provincial money. AARC is simply an alias for Kids of the Canadian West.
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After all these years, I have yet to hear the "differences" between KIDS and AARC.
AARC kids are fed more, and they don't "motivate".
What else? Anyone??