Why ask why?

[ajax13]

The issue at hand is not whether or not the Wizard and the AARColytes have lied.  They have.  The Wizard is not now, nor has he ever been a psychologist, but he has described himself as such, and has been referred to as such in print.  Why would he do this?
The Wizard insists on being called "doctor", even though he obtained a PhD paper from a diploma mill, and did not do a dissertation.  The Wizard was running AARC full-time when he acquired his special paper, so research was not his goal.  Why did he want people to think he was a doctor?
Despite the protests of the Wizard and demented followers like David Escobar-Grant, AARC was simply Kids minus Miller Newton.  The treatment method is the same, the terminology is the same, and even the outlandish aspect of host homes is the same.  So why would anyone implement a program that has proven so harmful that it was shut down in every location but Calgary?
In the late eighties a real social worker from Utah went to Kids looking for work as a counsellor.  She was so disturbed by what she saw that she wrote a report on the abusive nature of Kids.  This report was sent to officials in a number of states, and Kids was shut down or fled to other jurisdictions.  The Wiz did not respond in this way when he worked there.  He decided to bring Kids to Calgary, but broke away from Miller Newton when Kids fell under the scrutiny of police and district attorneys.  The Wizard simply took some Kids inmates and made them his original peer counsellors.  If his interest was in helping children, why didn't the Wiz go to the authorities in the manner of Sandi Levy-Barbero, the Utah social worker?
AARC claims to have an 85% success rate, and this is quite simply a lie.  85% of children who enter treatment at AARC do not live abstinent lives afterward.  Why does AARC insist on promoting this lie?
Dear readers, you will have your own answers to these questions, and I have come to my own conclusions.
The answer to all these questions is the same.  The Wizard is a fraud, and AARC is a religious institution set up to feed the Wizard's ego.  Without the barrage of deception, AARC would not exist.  AARC is, in it's very essence, a lie.

[Anonymous]

the 85% success rate is based on the AADAC criteria

[Anonymous]

So Dean throws the AADAC criteria out to show that AADAC is ineffective, then uses the same criteria to show how effective AARC is?  I doubt it.  AADAC criteria applied properly would show a far lower success rate.  it all depends on the entry level filtering that is done.  Bullshit in bullshit out.  As to effectiveness, AADAC gave AARC a failing grade -- rate of 1 on a scale of 1 to 10.  The politicians moved in and slapped them on the wrist.  There's an amazing amount of suppression of evidence here that, if it were a court of justice would result in charges of obstruction.  ---- and the media are barely scratching the surface

[ajax13]

The 85% rate is based on Miller Newton's rate out of Straight and Kids.  It's high enough to impress the intended mark, yet leaves a large enough margin to account for any inmates who tell the truth about the total inability of All About Receiving Cash to treat anything.  The question remains, why does the Wizard use this lie?  To steal, and to get his hands on more children.  As has been repeatedly pointed out, the "study" that AARC refers to in quoting that figure was written by the Wiz, and overseen by another fraud from the Union Institute.  The days of AARC excreting phony stats and using them to sell itself are done.

[Anonymous]

The issue at hand is not whether or not the Wizard and the AARColytes have lied.  They have.  The Wizard is not now, nor has he ever been a psychologist, but he has described himself as such, and has been referred to as such in print.  Why would he do this?
The Wizard insists on being called "doctor", even though he obtained a PhD paper from a diploma mill, and did not do a dissertation.  The Wizard was running AARC full-time when he acquired his special paper, so research was not his goal.  Why did he want people to think he was a doctor?
Despite the protests of the Wizard and demented followers like David Escobar-Grant, AARC was simply Kids minus Miller Newton.  The treatment method is the same, the terminology is the same, and even the outlandish aspect of host homes is the same.  So why would anyone implement a program that has proven so harmful that it was shut down in every location but Calgary?
In the late eighties a real social worker from Utah went to Kids looking for work as a counsellor.  She was so disturbed by what she saw that she wrote a report on the abusive nature of Kids.  This report was sent to officials in a number of states, and Kids was shut down or fled to other jurisdictions.  The Wiz did not respond in this way when he worked there.  He decided to bring Kids to Calgary, but broke away from Miller Newton when Kids fell under the scrutiny of police and district attorneys.  The Wizard simply took some Kids inmates and made them his original peer counsellors.  If his interest was in helping children, why didn't the Wiz go to the authorities in the manner of Sandi Levy-Barbero, the Utah social worker?
AARC claims to have an 85% success rate, and this is quite simply a lie.  85% of children who enter treatment at AARC do not live abstinent lives afterward.  Why does AARC insist on promoting this lie?
Dear readers, you will have your own answers to these questions, and I have come to my own conclusions.
The answer to all these questions is the same.  The Wizard is a fraud, and AARC is a religious institution set up to feed the Wizard's ego.  Without the barrage of deception, AARC would not exist.  AARC is, in it's very essence, a lie.

Not to lay down an ad-hominem attack on you, but reading your mental diarrhea is such a fucking waste of time!

Why? You have no FACTS or PROOF to back up your late night self-revelations.

Kids and AARC were never even close. The 12 steps, and some of the format were similar, as for treatment of clients... go by there someday and have a look at the place. Wait, you're probably some back-bench armchair politician that wouldn't admit he was wrong if the truth was stuffed up your asshole.

[ajax13]

The facts have all been laid out in this forum many times over.  AARColytes can continue to deny them, but they are what they are.  I don't know what you mean by "self-revelations", but then again you were in AARC so your faculties have probably been damaged.  Most AARCies don't know that the Wizard came from Kids and was going to carry on Kids of the Canadian West here, so let's look at a few similarities.
Head of AARC worked at Kids.
Head of AARC gets mail-order PhD from Union Institute, same obscure diploma mill from which head of Kids, Miller Newton, obtained his.
AARC lays off costs of room and board for inmates to parents of other inmates.  Kids laid off costs of room and board for inmates to parents of other inmates.
Head of AARC repeatedly lies about being psychologist, head of Kids repeatedly lied about being psychologist.
AARC claims 85% success rate, total fabrication, Kids claimed 85% success rate, also a total fabrication.
Staffers at AARC are all former inmates, staffers at Kids were principally former inmates.
Children held illegally at AARC, children held illegally at Kids.
Children assaulted by oldcomers at AARC, children assaulted by oldcomers at Kids.
Children with minimal or no drug use held at AARC, children with minimal or no drug use held at Kids.
AARC uses fake studies to sell itself to politicians, Kids used fake studies to sell itself to politicians.
AARC is Kids of Calgary.