Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Ridge Creek School / Hidden Lake Academy
HLA Becomes the First TBS Required to Be Licensed/Regulated
Anonymous:
Anything is possible. RC was always HLA's cash cow. At around $12k per national enrolled with up to 12-15 kids per class, times 4 working teams, RC was bankrolling a lot of stuff for the combined HLA/RC.
I thought Buch was nuts to risk his cash cow; he was even nuttier to turn down the offer from an investor group to buy the RC property when things got really bad and everyone started jumping ship.
Anonymous:
buch turned down any suggestions made by rc staff to make the program about the students as it was before, when MK was around, the program was never about the $ until now in the instructors eyes. this guy is going for blood and he doesn't care about his employees at alllllll!!! everything is $ driven and he made and is still making empty promises to the RC staff.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---You do know that as a result of this HLA recently had 27 new enrollments. This has increased the faith of consultants and families. Turns out that what you people looked at being a negative for HLA has made them more money.
--- Quote from: ""Dysfunction Junction"" ---
--- Quote from: ""hanzomon4"" ---Great news, what state is HLA in and will other facilities in that state have to be regulated?
--- End quote ---
HLA is in Georgia. I expect that the licensing requirements will be rolled out to other 'TBS' or 'EG' facilities, but I believe we will need to bring specific details to ORS to get these facilities on the ORS radar.
Like I said, it's not time to sit back. It's time to move forward with the new enforcement tools available.
What is critically important is that people need to know that these facilities, even the ones that are well-funded and connected, are not invulnerable.
The actions taken in regard to HLA can provide a template for anyone involved in activism/advocating to go after other facilities that are operating outside the law (which, near as I can tell, is all of them).
I will be speaking with media representatives this week to detail exactly how important this development is and will be drafting a new letter to Congressman George Miller expressing support for and hope for passage of the bill to End Institutional Child Abuse, which languished under the GOP-controlled congress for two years. With proper public support, we can get this bill done and roll out federal regulation for programs to address states that refuse to regulate their 'teen help' industries.
Children are not commodities to be traded!
--- End quote ---
--- End quote ---
Okay, so where is ORS now? Has anyone heard anything? HLA was
boasting early in the new year that they would be licensed any day. Also,
I guess Dr. Flatt at SACS, along with her entourage disappeared.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[*] Previous page
Go to full version