From Forbes, 2002
Outsourcing the problem kids of the wealthy is a booming business. Each year 10,000 kids attend residential programs to get off drugs and deal with emotional and psychological problems. Fixing bad kids is a $2 billion-a-year industry in the private sector, growing enough to attract firms such as Warburg Pincus. Some 115 (*now near 170) such programs are listed by a big trade group, Natsap (National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs); add nonmembers, and some 300 private programs treat kids, up tenfold since 1993, says Lon E. Woodbury of The Woodbury Report, a newsletter.
The article is "When Rich Kids Go Bad"
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/1014/140.htmlHighlights Leigh Horowitz, daughter of Tommy Hilfiger CEO.
Take a look at her homepage. Jack Beam in the Desert.... Is that a statement?
http://leighhorowitz.com/There's a related article re: Horowitz's financial contributions to CEDU.
Horowitz wants to change all that. Four years ago he co-founded the Friends of CEDU Foundation. Contributions from him and the Tommy Hilfiger Foundation comprise the bulk of the $500,000 fund.
http://www.forbes.com/2002/10/08/1008cedu.html