Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
Robert Lichfield is a Gospel Doctrine Teacher???
001010:
A lot of people in ministry are in it for the wrong reasons, and are crooks.
For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
--Environment is a sculptor -- a painter.
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CCM girl 1989:
So, since I don't know where to sign up for one of his classes? Do you think he might fly out to California to give me some lessons on how to live my life? Do you think he could save my soul?!!!
How about they all come out as a team, because my soul needs A LOT of help! Just kidding, I am as good, and sweet as they come. Well......most of the time that is!!!! :razz:
CCM girl 1989:
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"thats fine that you don't think i'm a grad, I graduated from scl around 2000, I went through the same exact program that many of you did, the difference is that I chose to make it a positive experience, as for him profiting the reality is that it's a business, therefore there's nothing wrong with proffiting"
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P-Grad,
I gave you the whole weekend to shoot me a private message....what happened?!! I think we all know what happened!!! Anyway, good luck staying out of trouble!
Anonymous:
http://www.alternet.org/story/31000/
So far, WWASPS hasn't chosen the God loophole, but its officials attach such religious zeal to teen control that the "faith-based" label would fit the company snugly. "Do I believe that God is finding a way for teens to get help? I do," Lichfield once told the Los Angeles Times. "Do I believe that Satan is interested in thwarting it? I do." Asked in December about his boss's remarks, Kay waxed philosophical: "If you have a spiritual side, I think you can truly believe that there may be some adversarial part of our nature and makeup that gets involved." Then there are other adversaries, some of whom Kay has called "wackos" -- a steady parade of unhappy mothers and teens, as well as the pesky foreign cops who have arrested camp leaders at Kay's schools for "human rights violations."
The company has spent the last decade trailblazing an unregulated frontier. Like manufacturers, they've outsourced to foreign countries which have different laws and standards. A predecessor like STRAIGHT, Inc., from 1976 to 1993 the foremost teenage drug rehab outfit in America, was driven out of business by liability and sued for false imprisonment and manhandling of children. But as industry watchers have discovered, the early 1990s saw new business models emerging for "tough love." WWASPS' approach has been a goldmine. By splintering its business empire into fragments -- including Teen Help, Adolescent Services, Inc., and Teen Escort (the teen retrieval arm) -- it has received much more leeway to conceal accountability and money trails, its critics argue. Draw a map of the network, Utah state prosecutor Craig Barlowe told the New York Times in 2003, and you'll see "a lateral arabesque with no hub except for these connections in Utah." Barlowe was pursuing a child abuse charge against the director of a WWASP-affiliated school at the time.
On the consumer end, parents are offered thousands of dollars in sales incentives for finding new kids or promoting WWASP schools, the New York Times has reported. The schools' hunger for pupils has created a proliferation of promotional websites -- like FamilyFirstAid.org -- beckoning mom and dad to ship the kid to the "friendly tourist Island [sic]" of Tranquility Bay, the "prime forest land" of WWASPS' Spring Creek Lodge and other pleasurable-sounding destinations. (As author Maia Szalavitz documents in her upcoming book, Help at Any Cost, at WWASPS program Paradise Cove in Samoa, which is now shuttered, kids caught scabies, and guards confined bad kids to a 3 feet by 3 feet plywood chamber that teens referred to as "The Box.")
CCM girl 1989:
--- Quote ---On 2006-01-23 08:58:00, CCM girl 1989 wrote:
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On 2006-01-19 20:14:00, Anonymous wrote:
"thats fine that you don't think i'm a grad, I graduated from scl around 2000, I went through the same exact program that many of you did, the difference is that I chose to make it a positive experience, as for him profiting the reality is that it's a business, therefore there's nothing wrong with proffiting"
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P-Grad,
I gave you the whole weekend to shoot me a private message....what happened?!! I think we all know what happened!!! Anyway, good luck staying out of trouble!
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Also, you say you graduated around 2000???? Like you are not sure? See, I know your full of it! Here's why.....
I was sent away 1-16-86 to Heritage School
I was transfered to CCM 5-27-89
I ran away 2-14-90 from CCM and never returned.
I stayed in St. George from 2-14-90 till 2-14-91 it was weird......exactly one year??? Then moved to Norcal to finish H.S., and then the rest I will share with you at another time (I don't feel like it is relavent).
When you go to one of WWASPS facilities, it is one of the most traumatic times of your life. You don't forget the dates, the times, what you were wearing when entering, etc.
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