Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
Where is Marla? Hidden Lake Academy Special ED. Teacher
Anonymous:
Have you read the definition of RCF?
Which part(s) of the definition do you feel aren't applicable to HLA?
You can argue that they are not an RCF all day, but standard practice is: when any facility cares for children 24/7/365, controls contact with parents/relatives, provides a diagnosis at enrollment and ongoing therapy, dispenses drugs, etc... they should be licensed.
Many states that have regs are largely in the dark. As the Dir of Utah licensing admitted, "We are reactive, not proactive." Whose interest does that serve? Utah DHS promotes programs on their website.
They should be looking at 'services provided' and if they don't have an appropriate 'classification' then create one. In this case, it wouldn't matter if they advertised as a TBS or EGS or PBS, they still meet the definition of an RCF based on services provided.
RCF is the catch-all catagory for all such programs.
What we all know, is that HLA is not/was never a traditional boarding school and that the accreditation organizations they are members of do not provide the same oversight and protection that the state would.
Until parents and Ed Cons refuse to place children in programs that avoid state oversight, hitting them in the pocketbook, this will continue to be a problem. HLA is not the first, or last, to avoid state oversight.
The question remains...Why?
Vindicated:
Having had the time to look over many of her past post, it does not appear she will ever acknowledge what she did was wrong.
Anonymous:
I will have to educate myself on the definitions. However, I do not think the state running something makes it better at all. State govt tends to screw things up, more than fixing it. Look at the public schools.
Vindicated:
You are making a faulty analogy, the issue of how public schools in different state has nothing to do with HLA being improperly registered. The fact of the matter is if they were registered as a theraputic boarding school there would be a means for students to discuss problems they have with the school without fear of reprisal, along with being able to contact their parents unrestricted. I would be interested in hearing an argument from someone stating how this might be a negative thing.
Anonymous:
State wouldn't be 'running' the program. The program would be required to follow state regulations as other child warehousing institutions, which are designed to ensure safety, competence, and basic human rights.
Granted, the state can not absolutely provide protection against all abuse and god knows they run some abusive facilities themselves (the kid who was recently killed at a Ga state-run wilderness program due to illegal restraint), but some protection is better than none.
As it is, HLA is a private corporation and no one is monitoring the 'therapeutic' aspect of the program.
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