As the victims of AARC are children at the time of their imprisonment, many are at a complete loss to understand what has happened to them. They are committed by their parents, and their parents pay to keep them there. If they run the police and other agencies of the state bring them back. Some have been sent their by the courts, and other referred by probation officers. All of this has put a sheen of legitimacy on a totally illegal, fraudlent enterprise. For anyone just finding this forum, here is AARC.
Way back in the wacky eighties, people in Calgary starated sending their children to a drug treatment center in the states. Some were not drug users, but the children caused trouble for the parents, so away they went.
The place they were sent was called Kids. Kids was the New York branch of a program called Straight. Straight used techniques taken from a cult called Synanon, techniques that had been discredited in the United States because they were the same as those used by the North Koreans to break American prisoners of war during the Korean war.
Kids was run by a man named Miller Newton who had been clinical director for Straight.
During the late eighties, the Wizard of Vause, who had no background in drug rehabillitation, but was in fact an expert instructor in dodgeball, took a job at Kids.
Miller Newton had no background in drug rehab for kids either, rather he had been a divinity student. Kids took in a lot of money from parents and from government and insurance companies, even though it offered no medical treatment, and there was no proof that the religious practises at Kids cured "drug addiction". Many of the children at Kids were abused in all kinds of ways, but the Wizard decided that he would come to Calgary and bring Kids with him.
The Rotary Club of Calgary had sent another former divinity student, Dr. Dookie, to look at Kids because money was leaving Alberta and ending up in New Jersey, along with the Alberta children.
Dr. Dookie had no training in drug treatment or any other facet of medicine, just like Miller Newton and the Wizard, but he was allowed to OK Kids for Calgary, and to provide the Wizard with money.
Right when the Wizard was ready to launch Kids in Calgary however, Miller Newton's flagship Kids got into all kinds of trouble. The Alberta government didn't seem keen to endorse or fund Kids in Calgary, so the Wizard took the ball and ran. With the help of Dr. Dookie, and presumably the Lord, the Wizard started AARC.
The Wizard stole the whole program from Kids, from the host homes to the raps, but he insisted that it was different. He left the assaults to the oldcomers and peer counsellors, which was a lesson he had learned from Miller Newton. Newton's illness was such that he actually attacked the children himself, whereas the Wizard let the inmates do the work for him. The Wizard gave countless interviews to Calgary media, continuously drumming up clients and pleading for money. He dragged former Kids victims into AARC and turned them loose on a new generation of child victims as "peer counsellors", and he conned people out of money with the relentlessness of a shark.
Alberta politicians were conned as well, and eventually the Wizard had a little fortress built of lies. He has brought in millions of dollars for a program that gives kids lunch and is staffed by unqualified former inmates, and still plays the best con of all, wherein he downloads the residential costs of his program onto the families of inmates, who are paying to keep their kids in AARC.
Along the way he got a mail-order PhD from the Union Institute, a diploma mill in the the US. Miller Newton had a couple of degrees from the Union Institute, and the Wizard incorporated that aspect of Kids early in the story of AARC. The Wizard then used other frauds from the Union Institute to sell AARC. The Wizard gets endorsements from these people called "doctors", so that the public and politicans think that physicians approve of AARC, but these people are just frauds like the Wiz, with mail-order PhDs from the Union Institute.
The Wizard as some point decided to start calling himself a psychologist, but this, like so many claims related to AARC, is a lie. He is not a psychologist, and has no standing with the College of Psychologists in Alberta, nor anywhere else in Canada.
So what you have is a psychopathic swindler who has roped in a lot of people who would look really stupid if the truth came out, so it doesn't. Rather than face facts and shut him down, people still help trap new clients and continue the cash flow.
Straight and Kids have been shut down because they were a fraud that fed on children, and AARC will suffer the same fate.
