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Academy at Swift River - Split from TTI
Deborah:
--- Quote from: ""TheWho"" ---You also mentioned that this occurred when ASR” literally opened their doors” as you stated…..hmmmmmm. So lets see…….ASR started up, opened their doors and had the EEC (as it is called now) come over to visit, found some violations, ASR corrected them and now, a decade or 2 later, you are having heart burn with it. I still haven’t seen the report citing these violations or if they exist, but if they occurred at start up, why bother?
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The investigation revealed that ASR was violating state regs, first and foremost, operating without a license. They were cited, but not sanctioned. Can't sanction a program that's not under your jurisdiction. At that point, they were still a private corp with all the rights that entails, hence the meetings with the attorneys. Just like HLA, oh wonder of wonders. HLA probably coached them on how to scam the state.
--- Quote ---If a violation occurred 10 or 20 years ago don’t you think they would have follow-up and verified if they made changes?
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Not in an unlicensed program. They are not required to make any changes unless/until they are under the state's jurisdiction.
--- Quote ---And if they haven’t followed up why would turning over control to the state in the form of regulation to these people make our kids any safer?
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That's a good point. And I can imagine a very similar scenario to what I described about HLA. The state needs to be well educated, ie- shown proof of the services ASR provides. And if the stars are lined up just so, and they have an ethical director on staff, ASR will most definitely be required to licensure.
--- Quote ---This is nuts! What newspaper did this come from …… this just doesn’t pass the sniff test
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You can find it in a google search. I put up another copy in the Aspen forum because it no longer turns up in searches here:
http://www.fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.ph ... 201#256201
TheWho:
Finally the newspaper article.. we were waiting for. So 10 or 15 years ago (when they first opened) the school was cited for allegations made by an employee who was not happy. After further investigation the allegations were determined to be unfounded. If the investigation as a result of the citation found ASR to be in violation there would have been a public record.... but there is none.
Lets say I am not happy with my job as a cook at Harvard and get the authorities involved and create enough smoke I could get a citation written for raw meat being left out over night. But unless I can prove what I have alleged (that there is an ongoing problem) the charges get dropped and there is no public record….. Harvard shouldn’t suffer because of this man and the law sees that they don’t.
TheWho:
So it seems they passed the old "Abuse hotline" test 10-15 years ago.....?
hanzomon4:
Link to the article
No who, in the article it says that ASR used it's licensing to avoid state oversight and that the matter resulted in legal fights that were unresolved at the time this article was published.
--- Quote ---The citation struck at another bone of contention between the state and ASR. A few months ago OCCS found itself at odds with ASR over whether the school needs to be licensed in Massachusetts as a treatment center, something College Health Enterprises had not done. ASR officials seemed to be having it both ways by enforcing rules usually associated with treatment programs for people with emotional or behavioral disorders, but refusing to have the school licensed as a treatment center, which would give OCCS the right to oversee its operations.The disagreement is still unresolved, and has turned into a battle between lawyers for the state and the school.
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sick of child torture girl:
Its good to know the folk in Mass care.
do you know is asr has any connection to desito another mass school that also got shot down.
mass is a progressive state and they actually care. Im so happy
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