Wow, this is a disaster, you people are ferocious, but obviously only with the best intentions. TeensHelp.us is owned by myself and my attempt to provide parents asking me for help a place to turn. The google ads were basically serving as placeholders for content yet to be developed. The website will also serve as a starting point for loosening the teen help network's monopoly in every major search engine. This one is going to be a contender, I think I can optimize it to the point of getting it to at least a 1-20 position for terms like "teen help" "teen boarding schools". The link back to antiwwasp is to showcase that there are schools out there that are putting teens in dangerous and unhealthy living environments, as well as subjecting them to abuse.
I have no answers for the hoards of people asking for help here. What do I tell them? Can anyone actually specify something realistic for what the parents of these teens should do when they're at their wits end? I've held off for a year and a half of people asking me "what do i do if I can't use wwasp?". I'm tired of not being able to answer. I'm also tired of thinking that the same people that I'm trying to inform about WWASP, are left with no other options and are forced to put their teen in a WWASP affiliated school. It would be foolish to think that every facility in existence is abusing children or not providing adequate care.
I know I'm still going to get criticism for referring parents to licensed, regulated, and helpful facilities, but I'm confident that there are still staff at various schools around the country trying to make a difference in young peoples lives. I will be doing vigorous screening of every school that applies to be a part of the list. I'm trying to find licensed places that don't employ any of the tactics wwasp uses. I'm setting up a list of requirements for schools to be added to this new service with things such as, Background Checks, Licensing Requirements for the State the school's located in and other things I believe every school should require. I'll do my absolute best to research every school held within this new directory to make sure no school is a part of ISACCORP.org's watchlist gets included in the list. I will also use my visitors opinions and knowledge of the industry to best suit the teens who will be sent to the schools I'm "recommending".
That site isn't exactly finished, it was more of a placeholder until I can get the real thing up. I know there will be more comments here about being a hypocrit and you're all entitled to your opinion. Or you're being nieve about what's really going on here. Regardless of what I'm doing with antiwwasp.com, it does no good if there's no alternative. I hope you can see what I'm trying to do.
I want to establish that I'm not going to defend myself here at fornits at every turn. I've stated my opinion on the subject and I'm basically at the end of the line on this one unless someone can offer a solution. As for the references earlier to the year 2002, that only refers to the life experience I've incurred with this troublesome industry since going through several rehab centers, a wilderness program (that was actually helpful), and then onto 12 months at spring creek which was one of the worst things I've ever gone through.
I'm going to try to help some of the smaller schools more exposure, ones that are doing good by giving students valid educations, job skills, and helping them turn their lives around. Not locking someone up and making them pay for extras such as therapy.
As for sue scheff, if you can tell me which page still has a link to her site i'd be glad to remove it. I was just today informed that teenhelpindustry.info is her's it will be removed shortly. I had no idea because it had the "referral-free zone" button on the page with tons of info on WWASP. Should have done my homework.
