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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: New project: The sovereign School
« on: June 02, 2011, 12:17:57 PM »
The project will not happen.  Dr. Fitzhugh said it herself at the zoning meeting.  Even if she were to get zoning approval, it would be tied up in lawsuits, etc. until the end of time.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: New project: The sovereign School
« on: May 31, 2011, 05:40:41 PM »
If you do a public files search, you'll find that she didn't think she would need a Certificate of Need from the state of Vermont.  She found out days prior to the vote by mail that a) she would be sanctioned without one if she were to start the process before receiving one and b) it would take a ton more effort (months and money) to secure one.  I think she thought she could get around it, but that simply did not happen.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: New project: The sovereign School
« on: May 26, 2011, 10:14:58 AM »
Realizing she had lost the battle, Dr. Fitzhugh withdrew her application for zoning last night at a town meeting of the zoning board.  It is a win for the people of Peacham, even the ones who supported her efforts.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: New project: The sovereign School
« on: May 22, 2011, 02:50:23 PM »
The zoning commission can't make a ruling in good conscious if they don't have the specifics for admission and/or have ever visited such a facility.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: New project: The sovereign School
« on: May 21, 2011, 11:27:26 AM »
I read the overview that Dr. Fitzhugh gave to the zoning commission.  Here are some things that just don't add up.  

The Fire and Danville rescue endorsements.  It is impossible for them to know what the impact would be, as they do not know what type of resident would be housed in the facility.  No one knows what kind of issues these women will have, because Fitzhugh isn't letting anyone know.

There is no mention of family visitation or family group therapy sessions' impact on traffic.  That is a HUGE omission on her part.

She said in the document that it is not a long term facility, in hopes of keeping her under the boarding house umbrella it seems.  A year minimum commitment makes it a long term facility.

She said there won't be a fence, but does not mention if it is a locked facility.

She said that it isn't "primarily" a drug or alcohol treatment program.  HOWEVER, this is a tricky way to say "Well, we're really treating mental illness here, and some women might also have a drug addiction or alcohol dependency as well.  She must be required to detail exactly what type of applicants will be accepted.

She said it isn't a "acute psychiatric facility".  What is her definition of acute?  These women are troubled, or they wouldn't be in a year long program.

The document also states that it is "not a school".  Then why is it called a school?  She can't have it both ways.

She doesn't mention the proposed growth to 30 women, and how many more staff that would require.  That's a BIG deal.

She doesn't mention if any of the residents will be there unvoluntarily.

She claims it won't provide medical services, which is an out and out lie.  They will be medicating many if not all of the residents, which is providing medical service.  If they do drug/alcohol testing, that is also a medical service.  They will be checking vital signs, etc. and other functions to make sure the patients are healthy.

The community should demand access to the papers she's filed with the state health department.  That will tell us what she's really up to.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Re: New project: The sovereign School
« on: May 10, 2011, 09:33:58 PM »
This project is DIRTY, from TOP to BOTTOM!  

Fitzhugh announced the "school" and she doesn't even had zoning approval!  She wants to place 30 severely emotionally disturbed women, ages 18 - 24 and several full time staff in the middle of a quaint, historic  village that has about 70 people in the miles around it!  And she wants to put all of these people on about 3 ACRES of land!   Note there is no mention about the emotional issues the patients have in any of the literature about the Sovereign School??  You don't get sent away for a year to a locked facility because you flunked out of Junior League!  Her patients will have severe emotional issues, and most of them will probably be battling substance abuse.  Thie Sovereign School isn't even a halfway house -- it's the stop before they even get to a half way house!  And Fitzhugh wants to put it in the middle of a historic village???  I love the part about volunteering in the community.  Do you want 30 emotionally disturbed women in the grade school helping the little kids?  I think not.

I'm all for promoting excellent mental health for those in need.  But you will NOT find a program anywhere in the country that puts these types of poor women in the middle of a town!  They put facilities such as this in the middle of nowhere for a) the patients' privacy b) the patients' safety and c) so that they can have room to exercise, etc. outside of prying eyes and d) for the safety of the community!

What will Dr. Fitzhugh do the first time one of the poor women who has a substance abuse problem gets a visit by her boyfriend.  Maybe he gives her a little present of Meth or Coke.  Then Dr. Fitzhugh will not only have killed the dynamic of Peacham, but introduced drugs into the community.  If one of the women with several mental illness decides, God forbid, to try to take her own life, will the volunteer fire department have pay the facility a visit?

Fitzhugh and her gang want to make money -- an estimated 3MM in gross revenue each year -- on the backs of the poor people of Peacham.  And she's used her charisma to snow good people into believing this is a good idea.  She should be ashamed of herself.

P.S.  She's claimed that she is a minister.  According to her Linked In page, she won't be finished with her divinity studies until 2014 at the earliest.

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