Keith C. Russell

[Mummie]

Keith C. Russell, Ph. D., of the University of Idaho's Wilderness Research Center.  I am thinking...another name to add to the list.  This was taken from Outbacks program site.

[Mummie]

also, did anyone see this??  http://http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1009617&page=1  It's a 2005 article that has been brought back to the top of google under troubled teens.

[stoodoodog]

Keith Russell is the father, and Catherine Freer is the mother of the bastard child known as NATSAP...

[Mummie]

No kidding?  Jesus Wept.  I did not know that.  You learn something every day.  I love this place.

[TheWho]

Keith Russell is the father, and Catherine Freer is the mother of the bastard child known as NATSAP...

Now we are suppose to hate NATSAP?  What have they done?  They seem to be the closest thing we have to regulation of these places.

[Anonymous]

Now we are suppose to hate NATSAP?  What have they done?  They seem to be the closest thing we have to regulation of these places.

*facepalm*

Lurk more.

[TheWho]

Effective May 1, 2007, all programs applying for membership in NATSAP must meet the following requirements:

1.   Licensure by the appropriate state agency authorized to set and oversee standards of therapeutic and/or behavioral healthcare for youth and adolescents or accreditation by a mental health accreditation agency.
2.   Therapeutic services with oversight by a qualified clinician.
3.   Compliance with NATSAP Ethical Principles and NATSAP Principles of Good Practice (see www.natsap.org).

Our association and its members are supportive of all efforts to eliminate every so-called boot camp or other 'tough love' program that does not use a therapeutic milieu in working with adolescents," Moss says. "We continue to work with state and federal lawmakers and agencies to encourage, establish and strengthen state laws and regulations to protect children in need of out-of-home placement."

The National Association Of Therapeutic Schools and Programs ("NATSAP") members across the United States are saddened by the shocking instance of abuse reported in the ABC News story entitled "Boot Camp Pastor Charged in Girl's Dragging".  Jan Moss, Executive Director of NATSAP says this report again points out the need for state licensure and oversight of the programs and schools that serve our struggling young people.


http://http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/3/prweb515516.htm

http://http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/8/prweb547938.htm


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[Anonymous]

Wow...yeah, it looks great!  Who oversees and enforces the principles of good practice?  Has any program been kicked out of NATSAP for violations?  I'm really curious as to the board of directors, who must be unbiased.  Oh, here they are:

    
 
Sharon Laney    President    Three Springs
Craig LaMont, MS, LMFT    Vice-President    Telos Residential Treatment
Will White    Secretary    Summit Achievement
Gil Hallows    Treasurer    Aspen Achievement Academy
Michael Berrett, Ph.D.         Center for Change
Linda Carpenter         Star Meadows Academy at Hope Ranch
Karen Fitzhugh         King George School
Penny James         Explorations
Michael Merchant         ANASAZI Foundation
James Meyer         Oakley School
Sidney Parham         Family Foundation School
Craig Rodabough         CERTS
John Stewart         New Haven
John Santa, Ph.D.    Ex Officio    Montana Academy
Audrey Peavey         New Horizons for Young Women
Jane Kolber    Ex Officio    IECA Special Needs Chair


Wait a minute!  These people run programs, and some damned questionable ones at that!  There seems to an imbalance here...

And what's all this, then?

5.0 Special Treatment Procedures (STP)

Special Treatment Procedures refer to a specific class of behavioral interventions that restrict the free movement of a child by mechanical or physical means for a prolonged period of time when the child becomes a danger to self and/or others, is destructive of property, or is a serious disruption to the therapeutic environment. Specifically, those interventions are referred to as seclusion, restraint, or more than 30 minutes of a physical hold.

Seclusion is a procedure where the individual is restricted to a small space, such as a time-out room, without the ability to leave the room, i.e. the individual is blocked from exiting either by a locked-door or by a staff standing in the door and preventing the program participant from leaving the room for more than 30 minutes.
A Restraint procedure occurs when a mechanical device such as leather belts, posy belts, strait jackets, hand cuffs, or other devices are used to restrict the free movement of an individual or whenever a program participant is placed in a physical hold exceeding 30 minutes.

Those NATSAP members, who employ special treatment procedures, must be licensed or accredited by state and/or national regulatory organizations that specifically address the use of said procedures.

However, any NATSAP member program may resort to physical restraint in order to remove a participant to a more restrictive level of care in the event of imminent threat of serious injury to the program participant or others. All NATSAP programs must have specific policy, procedures, and training to respond to such emergent situations.

6.0 Risk Management and Performance Improvement

6.1 Physical holdings, restraint and seclusion can be high risk and problem prone. The organization should collect data on the use of brief physical holding interventions and special treatment procedures in order to monitor and improve performance of processes that involve risk or may result in sentinel events.


As I recall, programs "self-regulate" by signing a promise to follow the Golden Code of NATSAP.

It's a lame attempt at dodging regulation, that's all.  The Board members have everything to lose from a NATSAP program getting into trouble.

Isn't HLA a NATSAP program, Who?[/i]

[TheWho]

Wow...yeah, it looks great! Who oversees and enforces the principles of good practice? Has any program been kicked out of NATSAP for violations? I'm really curious as to the board of directors, who must be unbiased.

Hmmm.  Maybe you are right..how can we compare this, lets see.  Why don’t we take a look at hospitals:

JCAHO oversees hospitals, lets see who oversees the principals and good practices at JCAHO…â€

[Anonymous]

Who, there's a huge difference with doctors and hospitals.  

1) It's not *the same exact people* who are monitoring themselves.  In other words, JCAHO (which has plenty of faults, nonetheless) does not consist of current hospital owners and operators.  They employ doctors, but it's not like Joe Hospital Exec monitors the hospital he works for!!!

2) Doctors and hospitals are subject to numerous additional state (and some federal) regulations.  There are many inspectors.

3) Every hospital has a patient ombudsman whose entire job is to take patient complaints seriously and nothing but.

4) Peer reviewed research governs much of what doctors and hospitals do.  If they fail to follow relevant guidelines, they can and DO GET SUED FOR SERIOUS AMOUNTS OF MONEY.  Didn't you ever hear about the crisis in malpractice insurance?

5) Hospitals do not have an ideology which consists of saying that all patients are liars and manipulators whose complaints should be ignored for as long as possible.

6) Doctors generally go into medicine because they want to help people-- not primarily to make money.  Obviously, there are many exceptions but doctors are trained extensively on ethics and they have a code which begins FIRST DO NO HARM!!!!

7) It is in a hospital's best interest to do good infection control, one of the many standards on which JCAHO rates them.  If you simply pretend, you will have lots of patient deaths and additional illnesses.  However, if a program simply pretends to follow standards, there's no way of knowing about it because kids are not believed and many deaths go unreported due to lack of regulation.

JCAHO CAN AND DOES SHUT DOWN HOSPITALS. NATSAP has neither the will nor the power to do that.

I could go on but I'm getting bored.

[TheWho]

Its the exact same thing,  Here:

•   There have been "glaring examples" of JCAHO missing important quality problems, notably at Redding Medical Center (California), Maryland General Hospital, Norwalk Hospital (Connecticut), and Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center (Florida).


•   About 99 percent of the hospitals reviewed by the joint commission win accreditation...." "Some critics point to the approval rate as evidence that the joint commission is captive to hospitals."

•   JCAHO has a "subsidiary, Joint Commission Resources, [which] was established in the 1990s to consult with hospitals on how to gain accrediation and improve their performance." "Directly or indirectly, most of JCR's nearly $33 million in revenue comes from helping hospitals win the joint commission's seal of approval."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01023.html
http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/a ... erest.html

I could go on and on,  but NATSAP isnt set up to shut down programs.  They are building credibility and teeth by raising the bar a little higher each time.  JCAHO when they formed in the 1950's didnt run around shutting hospitals down, it took them years to gain power and credibility...same thing with NATSAP....

If you look at how JCAHO was developed and grew you would see it is exactly like NATSAP is progressing


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[Anonymous]

shut up Sullie, we are all sick of you.

[psy]

Keith Russell is the father, and Catherine Freer is the mother of the bastard child known as NATSAP...

Now we are suppose to hate NATSAP?  What have they done?  They seem to be the closest thing we have to regulation of these places.

 ::roflmao::  ::roflmao::  ::roflmao::  ::roflmao::  ::roflmao::

Oh Who.. You have such a good sense o humor sometimes.  (No, I didn't check, but i'd bet 100$ that you wrote the above post...  am I right?)

[Anonymous]

Its the exact same thing,  Here:

•   There have been "glaring examples" of JCAHO missing important quality problems, notably at Redding Medical Center (California), Maryland General Hospital, Norwalk Hospital (Connecticut), and Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center (Florida).


•   About 99 percent of the hospitals reviewed by the joint commission win accreditation...." "Some critics point to the approval rate as evidence that the joint commission is captive to hospitals."

•   JCAHO has a "subsidiary, Joint Commission Resources, [which] was established in the 1990s to consult with hospitals on how to gain accrediation and improve their performance." "Directly or indirectly, most of JCR's nearly $33 million in revenue comes from helping hospitals win the joint commission's seal of approval."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01023.html
http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/07/a ... erest.html

I could go on and on,  but NATSAP isnt set up to shut down programs.  They are building credibility and teeth by raising the bar a little higher each time.  JCAHO when they formed in the 1950's didnt run around shutting hospitals down, it took them years to gain power and credibility...same thing with NATSAP....

If you look at how JCAHO was developed and grew you would see it is exactly like NATSAP is progressing


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Peninsula Village has JCAHO certification...but a quick check on the JCAHO site reveals Park West Medical in Knoxville has the certification for two of it's clinical labs, nothing else.  Peninsula Village is part of the Park West group which is part of the Covenant group, knee bone connected to the thigh bone...

Peninsula doesn't have the certification and has no right to be stating they are JCAHO certified.  So, yeah, Sullie, I see how NATSAP is progressing like JCAHO.

Remove yer head from the dark and dank place you keep it stuck in, you need air, boy.

Say, when the shit hits the fan at Peninsula Village and Covenant wants to be rid of a public relations nightmare, a concern could buy the place for pennies on the dollar.

[hanzomon4]

Which is why JCAHO is a joke......