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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Oscar on March 28, 2009, 05:00:15 PM
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We located this case about a boy apparently being forced into a certain Christian Group: Free Nathan (http://http://www.freenathan.com/)
The group is called Hearlight Ministries and their homepage is here (http://http://www.heartlightministries.org/).
Heartlight has been on Wikipedia (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartlight_ministries) writing an article on their own.
We have improved the article with the location of their behavior modification facility but have been unable to digg up very much.
We have a datasheet on the European wiki server (http://http://www.secretprisonsforteens.dk/fornitswiki/index.php/Heartlight_Ministries)
Can anybody help?
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I ran across a blog some time ago that mentioned that Heartlight uses some of Hyde's curriculum, but I haven't been able to confirm that with another source.
They are heavily moralistic, a stance emanating very much from an allegedly Christian perspective. They are coercive and judgmental, but supposedly with the noblest of intentions, with their students' "best interests at heart" (aren't they all?).
Key administrative figures are mostly "all in the family," if ya get my drift. Of all the religiously-based programs out there, Lon Woodbury seems to favor this one especially, which should also tell you something...
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They are endorsed by focus on the family so obviously are evangelically based
http://www.troubledwith.com/ParentingTe ... %20alcohol (http://www.troubledwith.com/ParentingTeens/A000001265.cfm?topic=parenting%20teens%3A%20drugs%20and%20alcohol)
In fact the guy who runs them has his own "seminar series" and radio program. The radio show is largely an advertorial for his school. The one I listened to at random interviewed the kids.
http://www.heartlightministries.org/radio/index.html (http://www.heartlightministries.org/radio/index.html)
Also has written a few books.
http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/mark_gregston.html (http://www.selfgrowth.com/experts/mark_gregston.html)
he is concerningly ambivalent toward boot camps
http://searchwarp.com/swa216897.htm (http://searchwarp.com/swa216897.htm)
he also advertises his programs under a few different sites all professing to offer "advice" to parents of troubled teens
ttp://www.heartlightministries.org (http://ttp://www.heartlightministries.org)
http://www.christian-boarding-school.com (http://www.christian-boarding-school.com)
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Christian Boarding School Denies Jeremy Jordan's Claim It Was Practicing Gay Conversion Therapy on His Cousin (http://www.people.com/article/heartlight-ministries-denies-using-gay-conversion-therapy) (People Magazine)