Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
Carlbrook
maruska:
PKW, do you have joint legal custody? Please try this site for legal advice:
http://forum.freeadvice.com/child-custo ... tation-37/
psy:
--- Quote from: "PKW" ---My ex is dropping off my son this morning. I spoke to him last night he had just been released from SNWP - the conversation was strange - he kept talking about a "higher power" which means the staff. I gave him the heads up about visiting, phone calls, letters, BANS, etc. I have been in contact with the State of Virginia Dept. of Education. Received a response that they were "extremely concerned about the contents of the parent handbook". I checked with the Dept. Health and none of the Advisors are licensed to practice in the State of Virginia and the consulting Psychologist isn't either although he is licensed in South Carolina. The powers that be are supposed to call me once he has been dropped off and settled in. I am appealing to anyone, survivors and parents of survivors to help me because the Judge will not have him removed from this program because of the report received from SWNP.
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It's great youforwarded the manual to the Dept of Education. You might also want to forward it to the dept of health and whoever else you can think of (or whoever is supposed to be regulating residential treatment in VA). CB might claim to be a school, but it's crystal clear from their manual they are practicing treatment (and as such, probably require licensing as a facility).
As for the judge... If you can't find anybody else to come forward, try showing the judge this section of the handbook:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10982&start=2595#p328736
To me, it shows a clear danger in Carlbrook's policies (specifically in dealing with suicidal or homicidal kids). You might want to show the example of Alldredge Academy to drive the point home about the dangers of these sorts of policies.
PKW:
Thanks for the advice, at this point I do have joint custody and I will forward a copy of the handbook to the mental health dept. I have spoken to so many people today my head is spinning. The most recent was the Director of the SACS-CASI who advised me that they only accredited the school for Education and that I should call the school to raise any concerns about their policies. She did state though that they "had to abide by all of Virginia State Laws" which she assured me they did. Of course she didn't know who would oversee that. I have a call in to the school, they left me a message on my cell stating that a copy of the Parent Handbook would be mailed to me today, but since I already have one I have some ? for her and to please reach me at home.
Antigen:
--- Quote from: "Guest" ---We expect the govt to "monitor" rape--aka punish people who commit it. Similarly, we can expect the govt to monitior abduction, imprisonment and torture.
Prior to the 70s anti rape statues, particularly date rape, were not enforced. Today, laws against abduction, imprisonment and torture are not enforced. We can and should expect them to be!
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No, not like this. We don't have government monitors checking in each time someone fucks to make sure it was consensual. If you report a rape, chances are pretty good that they'll do some manner of investigation.... unless, of course, you report having been raped by a staff member in the troubled parent industry... or by a priest. All these things we're talking about, the violence, neglect, emotional abuse, they're already illegal. The trouble is that teenagers are the new scapegoated class. We collectively look the other way and assume they're lying or they deserve whatever they get. We don't need any new laws, just new attitudes.
Anonymous:
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--- Quote from: "Guest" ---So I think someone just mentioned me way back on page 2; I was "that kid" who requested to be sent to the woods in the middle of the winter. Weird.
Yeah, I went back to the woods, because they said if I did then I wouldn't have my graduation moved back (kept there for several extra months) because of the trouble I got myself into. They also said that I'd only be there (in the woods) for 2 weeks, so I wouldn't miss the last workshop (or seminar, for those who have attended different programs where that's the nomenclature preferred).
So that deal looked pretty good, and went off to the freezing Colorado wilderness, where I was informed after an extra 3 weeks that no, I couldn't graduate on time, as had been promised, and that I'd have to stick out another 6 months.
I was, at that point, heartbroken because all of the closest friends I'd ever had (one of the arguably few good things that comes out of Carlbrook and --I'm surmising-- its sister programs) would be graduating without me. So I said I wasn't willing to do that and went to go to California to finish highschool and live with my grandparents. It might just be the Stockholm-syndrome speaking, but it's probably the only real regret I have.
And yeah, I relapsed, and my use was far, far worse than it had been before Carlbrook/the two wilderness programs, but I eventually decided that enough was enough and went and got some 12-step help. I definitely have less in the way of criticism for those programs than I do the emotional-growth regimes, although one does notably need an internal desire to make them work.
Anyway, there's a nice ramble. I'm sure I'll read more and think of stuff I wish I'd said. I'd love to hear from anyone with any opinion- my email is bensturgess@hotmail.com, my AIM is BSturgess1985
Peace,
Sturge
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this kid might help you
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PTW, did you contact Karenindallas or Bensturgess?
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