Didn't know Elan went that far to track down splitees. ( staking out your parents home). I was briefly in another program before going to Elan where I escaped and they had 4 staff come back to my state for a massive man hunt. At the time I was dating this girl , whose Father was a pagen ( A really bad out law motorcycle club/gang)and they staked out her house and followed her daily. Her Dad got wind of it and her Dad and a biker buddy confronted the 2 men in the car and dragged them out and beat them down so bad they both were hospitalized for sometime.
They never winded up finding me and I successfully evaded them.
I too split from Elan a couple of times, just to seek time away from that hell hole. I split with a peer of mine for about 2 weeks, it felt good to get away from that place. Sucks though when you split, you have no money on you and feel like a bumb hitch hiking and what not.
What really was fucked up that Elan did, after I signed out, my home school district funded my stay at elan,and Elan continued to bill them for the next 10 months, that is until the school district found out I left 10 months earlier. I'm not sure what ever became of it, whether there was a lawsuit against elan or elan paid the school distric back every penny they illegally took. Just goes to show you how dishonest elan really is.