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Carlbrook - possible runaway - December 6, 2010
« on: December 07, 2010, 05:24:30 AM »
No name is online yet, but the Police thinks that a 16 year old student who is missing from Carlbrook may be a runaway: All-night search for runaway teen, The News & Record, South Boston, December 06, 2010

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All-night search for runaway teen

A search party of about 25 people and a trained rescue dog looked in vain for seven hours for a teenager who apparently ran away from the Carlbrook School on Saturday night.

Sheriff Stanley Noblin said the 16-year-old boy was reported missing sometime after 9 p.m. Deputies and trained volunteers in the search and rescue team fanned out in a one-mile radius of the school. Virginia and North Carolina authorities were alerted to be on the lookout for the teen.

Noblin and county Emergency Services Coordinator Kirby Saunders were headed back to the vicinity Sunday afternoon to double-check some spots, but Noblin thinks the boy is a runway.

Despite snow showers and temperatures in the 20s, Noblin thought the teen, who is athletic, intelligent and fresh from a weeks-long outdoor survival course that Carlbrook requires for admission, is capable of taking care of himself.

Saunders said the mostly volunteer crew, with the help of deputies, was on the scene for seven hours, or until about 4 or 5 a.m.

Carlbrook, founded in 2002 and located on about 200 acres west of South Boston, is a therapeutic boarding school for teens who have struggled academically or socially elsewhere. It has a rolling admissions policy.

Attempts to contact the school yesterday for comment were unsuccessful.

Let's hope that it is a runaway case. Back in the CEDU time the California campus had several cases where teenagers disappeared for good and later Police investigation did show that a serial killer walked around the campus free without supervision. Please notice how they think that the wilderness program is handy in such a solution.
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Re: Carlbrook - possible runaway
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2010, 12:53:27 PM »
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Please notice how they think that the wilderness program is handy in such a solution.
I think they want to assuage fears that the kid may perish in the wild given the current season and temperature.

What most folks don't realize, however, is that the focus of these programs is not on survival skills per se. It's on manipulating the therapeutic milieu by putting the child in unfamiliar territory, in order to help "encourage" a change in behavior.
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Re: Carlbrook - possible runaway - December 6, 2010
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2010, 08:48:19 PM »
Has carlbrook expanded into a chain of schools? I thought they were located in virginia but this said the kid went missing in boston
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Re: Carlbrook - possible runaway
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2010, 09:16:44 PM »
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Has carlbrook expanded into a chain of schools? I thought they were located in virginia but this said the kid went missing in boston
The article said "South Boston," which is a town in Virginia:

    Carlbrook, founded in 2002 and located on about 200 acres west of South Boston, is a therapeutic boarding school for teens...[/list]

    Most of the older states have some form of "Boston" as one of their towns or cities.
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    Re: Carlbrook - possible runaway - December 6, 2010
    « Reply #4 on: January 26, 2011, 11:20:29 PM »
    Anybody interested in Carlbrook please visit the site http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121154957908461. It is a public facebook forum that discusses Carlbrook and in which people are not anonymous, thus seeks to eliminate some of the more colorful and less productive aspects trends that occur on this one. If anybody is interested in documenting what went on at Carlbrook and taking it beyond the internet (not necessarily to the courts but gaining more legitimacy for our concern) I am attempting to collect sworn affidavits about the events that went on that aim to capture the truth. If you have told the truth you can use the accounts you've already made on this site and have them notarized. It is relatively easy to do this at a bank. Collecting affidavits of what went on there is important because obviously the extreme level of discontent coupled with severity and volume of accusations merits at least some sort of review by a state agency, the courts, or a specialist in mediation/arbitration. Tell the truth and don't exaggerate in any affidavits or you will be subject to perjury. You are also potentially sacrificing anonymity. You can either post your account on the facebook website or you can send it to my e-mail, crobb@gwu.edu. I personally am glad that I went to Carlbrook in the long run. Less because of what Carlbrook did but because I did need a change of environment. There are good people there and it saddens me that their employment may be threatened by irresponsible and reckless decisions of their superiors. I do honestly believe every single person, aside from maybe one or two was convinced that they were helping us. However, this issue is bigger then whether you liked Carlbrook or the people there. This is about what is acceptable to do to people, no matter what they have done, against their will. This is about the type of breakdown that happens in many organizations that suffer from a closed, secretive management. There were several things that were unacceptable, regardless of your experience.
    What was unacceptable was that Grant Price and others who ran groups and made explicitly "therapeutic decisions" has no formal training, education or certification to be providing mental health services (which is exactly what running a group therapy is doing). Carlbrook is not held to any standards in the provision of such services and that is a problem. There are a reason standards and regulations exist in this field (even if they have problems of their own). I think even those who cherished the experience realize that a lot of what went on was not OK and though intentions may not have been malicious by any party, kids were hurt and traumatized by the purposely constructed environment of acute stress and anxiety. Even if you could "take it" some couldn't. People are different. A one size fits all approach of breaking people down and building their identity back up may be useful in forming a cohesive military unit but it is not in treating kids for problems that in many instances are related to stress and anxiety in the first place. Creating an environment with the level of intensity and stress that Carlbrook did obviously will have different effects on different types of people. The degree of emotional invasiveness can also not be underestimated. Forcing people to disclose things they don't want to is simply unethical. Plain and simple. I see this as not an issue of whether or not you liked Carlbrook or certain people there. I see this as an issue of Carlbrook making egregious and harmful administrative errors and being held accountable like any other organization that provided you sub-standard services. If Johnson & Johnson sells defective Tylenol, like they did, they are held to account. Carlbrook purposely humiliated kids, engaged in arbitrary and bizarre punishment and the therapeutic relationships and incentives are certainly highly unethical if not illegal. I would like to know for certain if they are and what potential damage might have been inflicted. I would like to know if Carlbrook gave kids Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome which is a condition that worsens with age. I personally am not OK with so much of what went on at Carlbrook and think that a lack of accountability for past events or sweeping what happened "under the rug" would set a terrible precedent and would only encourage others to provide even worse services to kids. Carlbrook is attempting to legitimize and dilute a form of treatment that has been roundly rejected by medical professionals, the courts, and state agencies. Please join me in writing and notarizing an affidavit.
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