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Anonymous:
Has IZ become a Scientologist? CCHR is just as crazy as Tom Cruise, haevenly match. or should I say match made in Mars.
http://caica.org/Psychiatry%20no%20scie ... 0cures.htm
Anonymous:
Pro-Scientology? Who the hell knows? I'm still waiting to find out if she really believes in PURE RESULTS (whatever the hell that is).
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Anonymous:
High Top and Sorenson (another Sue Scheff referral)
Koosherem, Utah
Mother?s Complaint Prompts State to Move Kids from Utah
By
Pat Bellinghausen
22 Apr 2000
Driving 900 miles was a tough trip for a Billings mother whose 12-year-old son needed intensive mental health care.
The family?s dilemma became more difficult when they took a look at their destination: A ranch for troubled youth.
Montana?s Medicaid program would have paid $125 a day for the care of Barbara Kelly?s son at this remote facility southeast of Salt Lake City. But the therapeutic program she observed didn?t appear to be what a brochure and Web site had described, Kelly said upon returning to Billings. Connie Wolff, a family friend from Ekalaka who accompanied the mother and son to southern Utah, told The Gazette that she shared Kelly?s concerns about safety and lack of facilities.
Kelly brought her son back to Billings and notified the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.
Within days, the Montana Addictive and Mental Disorders Division in Helena had directed that all Montana children be transferred out of the High Top Academy near Koosharem, Utah, the facility that was the subject of complaint.
These youngsters were moved to the main campus of Sorenson?s Ranch School, which operates the High Top Academy, according to Dave Bennetts of the Addictive and Mental Disorders Division in Helena.
The AMD then followed up by directing that no more Montana youth can be referred to Sorenson?s Ranch, pending investigation of the complaint. However, the division didn?t move to relocate the nine Montana youths in care at the main campus.
?We totally agree with Mrs. Kelly,? Bennetts said. ?We have kids who were inappropriately placed at High Top. It was not the services we contracted for.?
He said the AMD Division is ?looking into whether there was inappropriate payment.? He said Sorenson?s Ranch representatives have been cooperative and helpful in telephone conversations.
Shane Sorenson, director of Sorenson?s Ranch School, said High Top Academy is a separate facility from Sorenson?s Ranch School with different ownership. However, he said the High Top Academy was started up by and licensed through Sorenson?s. He said the two facilities make referrals to each other and that High Top serves younger children.
Montana?s Medicaid program doesn?t inspect out-of-state programs, although health or probation officials may visit some facilities. Medicaid will pay for residential treatment in a facility that is licensed by the state in which it operates and is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations, a nationally-recognized accrediting firm.
Sorenson?s Ranch School meets those criteria and was on a list of Medicaid-approved residential treatment facilities for youth.
But at least four Montana youth, not including Kelly?s son, were placed at the High Top Academy, about 2 miles from the main ranch. According to the Utah Division of Licensing, the High Top Ranch is licensed for a lower level of care than residential treatment.
The High Top Academy has not been reviewed by the JCAHO, which last surveyed and accredited the Sorenson?s ranch in October 1998, according to JCAHO spokeswoman Donna Larkin in Oak Brook, Ill.
According to Allan Hayward, a supervisor in the Utah Department of Human Services in Salt Lake City, High Top Academy is licensed by Utah for ?residential support? of 20 adolescent males, ages 13-17. Hayward said the main ranch is licensed for 125 youth, ages 13 to 18.
Montana children who were moved from the High Top Academy to the main ranch were ages 10, 11 and two age 13, Bennetts said.
Hayward said the Utah Division of Licensing soon will be inspecting the High Top Academy because its annual license is due for renewal in May,
Kelly said Montana should have inspected the Utah facilities before Montana children were sent there, but she commended the Addictive and Mental Disorders Division for its response to her complaint.
?I?m really proud of Dave Bennetts and Lou Thompson for moving on this,? she said.
As for her son, the boy is at home while the family waits for an opening in residential treatment at Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch near Billings.
Paying for the car trip to Utah was tough, Kelly said, but she is thankful that she was able to go down and see the place herself, something she said most parents aren?t able to do.
?These kids, they are Medicaid and welfare placements. Their parents can?t afford to take them down,? Kelly said. ?Any place we?re going to put Montana kids, somebody should at least look at it.?
Used with permission of the Billings Gazette, copyright 1999
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2006-07-03 11:41:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Has IZ become a Scientologist? CCHR is just as crazy as Tom Cruise, haevenly match. or should I say match made in Mars.
http://caica.org/Psychiatry%20no%20scie ... 0cures.htm"
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and just like that, Gone! poof ::bigsmilebounce::
Anonymous:
What did it say?
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