http://tinyurl.com/2uy8gfAspn Help Needed Urgently! Action Alert! - 2006/11/10 20:10 This is a repeat of posts on appropriate forums. Hope that's o.k.!
I am asking for urgently needed help from this community re: collecting testimony from former Aspn program participants. Aspn has not been focused on due to their sophisticated business mo. which has made them appear to be legitimate. In case you have any doubts, I have plenty of evidence to the contrary, and it goes beyond what they do at the programs. They are in the process of merging with a much larger co. and the financing is being done by one of the largest private equity firms, mormon connected through the Gov. of Mass. - Bain Ventures ($42 Billion in assets). This makes Aspn particularly vulnerable NOW and I've starting gathering a team of people familiar either with Aspn and/or legal/corporate issues related to strategize how to create an effective arsenal to wipe them out legally. It's clear that a combination of testimony which will have emotional impact along with the legal corporate issues can be effective, at the very least, to present to the California atty. general to investigate, now Jerry Brown!! (if you don't know him, he's a dream atty. gen. as a zen practitioner and former gov. of California, very smart and liberal). Aspn is incorporated in California.
I noticed that on the action alerts there was emphasis on states which Aspn, with some exceptions, doesn't operate in. The bulk of their programs are in Utah and Utah as a state player is by far, the most corrupt re: these programs. Their economy is so poor they need these programs desperately and its clear that Aspn as WWASPS did, has made their way through campaign donations and who knows what other under the table cash which they have plenty off.
So, I hope that Utah, Oregon, Montana and Arizona get added to the state list. I'm sure that the Montana issues been reported on here so I won't go into it and I can't remember if it was already on the list but Oregon and Arizona are lax in checking into programs that are registered as boarding schools not as RTCS or TBS's.
I'll be back momentarily to get my list of aspn programs to post again.
as of 11/06
Aspn Programs:
1. Swift River Academy, Cummington, MA aka Academy @ Swift River
2. Academy of the Sierras, Reedley, CA
3. Adirondack Leadership Expeditions, Saranac Lake, NY
4. Aspen Achievement Academy, Loa, UT
5. Aspen Ranch, Loa, UT
6. Bromley Brook School, Manchester Center, VT
7. Camp Wellspring, NY
8. Cedars Academy, Bridgeville, DE
9. Copper Canyon Academy, Lake Montezuma, AZ
10. Excel Academy, Conroe, TX
11. Four Circles Rovery Center (Outdoor) Horseshoe, NC
12 Healthy Living Academy, Reedley, CA
13. Island View, Syracuse, UT
14. Lone Star Expeditions, TX
15. Mount Bachelor Academy, Prineville, OR
16. New Leaf Academy, Bend, OR
17. New Leaf Academy of North Carolina, Hendersonville, NC
18. NorthStar Center, Bend, OR
19. Oakley School, Oakley, UT
20. Outback Therapeutic Expeditions, UT
21. Passages to Recovery, Loa UT
22. Pine Ridge Academy, Salt Lake City, UT
23. Rossier Park Elementary, Orange, CA
24. Rossier Park Junior Senior School, Buena Park, CA
25. Sagewalk the Wilderness School, Redmond, OR
26. Stone Mountain School, Black Mountain, NC
27. Sunhawk Academy, St George, UT
28. SUWS of the Carolinas, NC
29. SUWS Adolescents & Youth Programs, Shoshone, ID
30. Talisman Summer Camp, NC
31. Turn About Ranch, Escalante, UT
32. Wellspring Adventure Camps, NY
33. Youth Care, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
HELP! If Aspn can be nailed, it puts every other bad program at serious risk (esp. PV which is in need of a fresh round of attack and is most similar to Aspn in terms of their corporate set up) and there's an opening right now if we can gather resources.
HG.
