Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Aspen Education Group
Academy at Swift River - Split from TTI
Troll Control:
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--- Quote ---No, it wasn't. It was for "mental health facilities". Where consumers are involuntary committed and subjected to coerced treatment. There are only three places kids are held against their will 24/7/365- jail, hospitals, and RTC (TBSs, if you prefer).
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If the state would recognize ASR as a mental health facility, get them licensed as such, then I would agree with DJ that a hot line may need to be installed.
But I cant agree to hold a schools feet to the fire over a law that doesnt apply to them.
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If it's a school, it is bound by law not to restrict commincation/screen mail/provide casework services or manditory therapy. ASR is in violation of the law.
RobertBruce:
Cindy are you really this dumb or just that brainwashed?
If ASR is a TBS then by law they are required to have a hotline in which kids can have unfettered access to as means of reporting abuse.
If ASR is a regular ol school then they are forbidden by law to restrict or monitor communications without a court order.
You pick which one, but either way they are breaking the law.
From the look of things though it would appear they are a TBS. Ive made this concluscion based on the following things:
1. They have mandatory therapy three times a week. Traditional Boarding School's do not do this.
2. They provide assessments, again traditional boarding schools do not do this.
3. When they were investigated by child services for claims of abuse CS stated they were improperly licensed.
4. (and most damning) they themselves fully claim and acknowledge that they are a theraputic boarding school. Even someone with your limitations can see that such an addmission pretty much seals the deal.
TheWho:
guest wrote:
--- Quote --- If it's a school, it is bound by law not to restrict commincation/screen mail/provide casework services or manditory therapy. ASR is in violation of the law.
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Okay, lets get the details of the law. Look at the different ways they can be applied, exemptions etc.and see how ASR sizes up against what the state defines as requirements.
I believe they are presently under the rules of a boarding school so I would start there. If the state decides to recognize them as a Mental health facility then we will need to apply those laws as well and or drop the boarding school requirements.
Its not up to you or I to define it as a school, boarding school, TBS or Mental health facility etc.. It is up to the state
Troll Control:
You are correct, Robert.
--- Quote ---"DSS passed the information on to the state Office of Child Care Services, which sent an investigator, Eric Lieberman, to the academy.
Academy administrators told Lieberman it was true that students were denied sleep for 19 or 20 hours during the first LifeStep session, called "The Truth." Staff and students might stay up all night, then break for a nap between 5 and 7 a.m., then continue the session until 2 the next afternoon, the administrators said.
It (OCCS) cited the school for"using behavior management techniques which subject students to verbal abuse, ridicule and humiliation, denial ofsufficient sleep, and repetitive exercise as a response to an infraction of a rule."
OCCS also cited the school for monitoring students' telephone calls and mail. The agency said that the right to privacy incommunications, even for juveniles, can be restricted only by court order -- for example (editing note: this is exactly the argument TheWho used earlier in the thread and it's 100% illegal!), if a therapist believes that the teen's communication should be monitored, perhaps to support a young person through a crisis in relations with his orher family -- and then only temporarily.
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This is undeniable proof that ASR is willingly, wontonly and intentionally breaking a law which absolutely does apply to them - and they've been doing it for years.
So this puts this issue to rest. Not only is ASR breaking the law, they've already been cited for it. Thanks for contacting ASR, Who and posting the results of your conversation. You've incriminated them. They must be thrilled about your being their field representative/mouthpiece!
You were saying, Who? :roll: [/quote]
RobertBruce:
And what you keep carefully avoiding is that Child Services of Massachusettess already told them they needed to become licensed as a RTC and ASR advertises as a theraputic boarding school.
If they arent should we add false advertisement to the list of infractions?
Neither they nor you can have it both ways.
If they are an TBS as they claim they are required to have a hotline for kids to report abuse.
If they are a traditional boarding school as only you claim then they are forbidden by law to restrict or monitor communications.
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