Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
illegal things at WWASP
Anonymous:
No, they did not try and convert me into a mormon. But, if I used the lords name in vain (oh my god, jesus christ, etc) I would get in trouble with long essays, and work hours. I came from a family that said oh my god all the time!!! Needless to say, I was doing a lot of writing when I first got there.
There was a house parent by the name of Stuart Johnson, he loved to touch me underneath the blanket during movie time. His wife Sandy wasn't too happy about it though! He was the hottest thing around though, I couldn't help myself, I was horny, and deprived! Sorry Sandi!
Anonymous:
Here are some things I'd question the legality of: physical restraints due to laughing or talking without permission (not as a last resort to keep a child from self-injurious or other potentially dangerous behavior), staff sleeping in front of the door, girls sleeping on mattresses in the hallway since they wouldn't ever admit to being at capacity, overmedicating with psychotropic drugs (does 90%+ of any given group need Ritalin & Prozac???), monitoring all mail, pulling grievances from the box intended for the State to receive and never turning them in, making kids jump on trash in the dumpster each night to pack it in, secluding those whose sexual identity was lesbian or bisexual, requiring extended periods of silence (remember Cameron's "baseball" game where he'd put us on silence and send us to bed if it got too loud three times)- and I am talking days in a row with this group silence punishment, prohibiting us from using a system of gestures developed in response to chronic group silence punishments, doling out group consequences period, and I'm sure more I can't think of just now. They used to always say that an entire group wouldn't talk until someone came clean or narced someone else off. Also, I do not think that level advancement and consequently the ability to go home should be left to a group of teenagers to decide. It seems that legally our advancement in a therapeutic program should be determined by a qualified therapist.
Anonymous:
These programs do more than you ever could do, so why don't you just let them do their professional jobs!!!
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Ex-gas station managers (MR.KAY) and people who have little education beyond high school (MR. Litchfield and a host of others in the WWASP organization) are not professionals. A professional would be someone who has received a degree in a related field and has receiving proper training to work with troubled teens. Not a bunch of greedy ignorants who decided that they would simply make up their own guidelines for treatment of troubled teens after managing a gas station.
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Anonymous:
I was at Spring Creek for about 10 1/2 months. It was one fucking nightmare of a chapter in my life. I got sent there basically because I hated my dad, my mom was dead, i didn't get great grades in school, and i liked weed and cigarettes. The whole time I was there, the only activities available were reading books, doing school, eating, sleeping, shitting, and socializing. Finally i turned 18 and came back to Anchorage where i now reside. The only thing i got from there was a meloncholy feeling and a diploma. I couldn't benefit from what that place had to "offer" beause i had different attitudes and beliefs, and i already knew anything they had to say. The whole program meets the definition of a 'total institution' where the victims are faced with an array of tactics to strip them of their personal identity. I will agree that it may help a small percentage of the victims in the long run, but from what i saw, it only left the victims depressed, suicidal, craving drugs, and generally hating life.
I saw many aspects of the operation to be in conflict with general logic and law: the victims are not allowed access to legal counsel or law enforcement, they are subject to assault by staff for misbehaving or a.k.a. "not following the huge number of ridiculous rules or restrictions imposed," there is no phone to contact relatives or friends, meals can be withheld to attempt to alter your behavior, meals are not satisfactory or nutritional. There is a lack of social opportunity and progress, poor medical assistance. Some victims may be subject to wear one layer of clothes in temperatures below 45 degress for long periods of time. It goes on and on.
The saddest part is that there are similar programs that are even worse. I am sure if someone got a good lawyer, these programs would either be shut down or forced to make drastic improvements...
Anonymous:
Same person as whole wrote above ^: if anyone needs to know anything specific about spring creek lodge or just anything, email e3j3p3@hotmail.com, i was there for 10 1/2 months, i got out 5 months ago...
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