15 Year Old Runs From Island View

[Anonymous]

When you do a goodle search for Emily Graeber it leads right to that thread. (It  did a couple of days ago anyway)

[Anonymous]

Someone started a Facebook group called: Good Luck To Emily Graeber, Fugitive From Unjust Imprisonment!

[Anonymous]

The Shawn Hornbeck Foundation and others searching for a missing Clayton girl want to know why the 15-year-old was allowed to stay on the plane beyond her ticketed destination.

The Hornbeck Foundation is serving as contact for information about Emily Cecilia Graeber, who has been missing since Oct. 29. Emily boarded a Southwest Airlines plane that morning for a flight to Salt Lake City, Utah. Instead, it appears she went to California and disappeared in San Francisco.

Hornbeck Foundation spokesman Sherri Martin said Tuesday that the FBI has found a witness who claims Emily remained on the plane until it landed in Oakland, Calif. The witness said he gave Emily a ride from Oakland to San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf area, Martin said.

A spokesman for the FBI in St. Louis would not comment on the case. However, the investigator heading the missing person case in Utah said he was given the same information by the FBI in St. Louis.

Lt. Tracy Jensen of the Syracuse Police Department said Tuesday that the witness told authorities he sat next to Emily on the flight to Oakland. After they arrived at the airport in Oakland, he gave her a ride to San Francisco.

“I’m asking for the FBI report tomorrow,â€

[Anonymous]

(KSDK) -A missing Clayton teen returned home safe Thursday night.
 
Emily Graeber's safe return came about thanks to an Internet search engine and a Web site.

The parents of Shawn Hornbeck were also a big help in bringing her back.

On Thursday night, a plane carrying Emily, with Craig and Pam Akers at her side, landed in St. Louis.

The Akers run The Shawn Hornbeck Foundation and have dedicated their lives to finding missing people since their son Shawn went missing in 2002. He was found in January.

Around midnight Wednesday, they got a call from a person in the San Francisco area who knew where Emily, 15, was.

Emily was last seen by her parents getting on a plane at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport bound for Salt Lake City on Oct. 29.

She was returning to a treatment facility in Utah, but didn't get off the plane.

Instead, she continued on to San Francisco and was later found to be a runaway.

A concerned person she met in San Francisco eventually entered her name in an Internet search engine and discovered Emily was posted as a missing person in a Shawn Alert on The Shawn Hornbeck Foundation Web site.

That person, who wants to remain anonymous, called the organization and led the Akers to Emily.

"When it was 3 a.m. and we couldn't reach anyone else who was available and willing to go this morning at 6:25, then Pam and Craig packed their clothes and they were here" at the airport, says Sherri Martin, spokesperson for The Shawn Hornbeck Foundation.

Emily's family is thrilled she's home.

"The ability to find a runaway and for a story to run out so wonderfully because really, it could gave gone really bad. We're grateful for the Shawn Alert," said Julie Ettinger, Emily's cousin.

Emily's family is tremendously relieved and overwhelmed.

They were unable to travel to California because a family member is gravely ill.

This is the first time the Akers have traveled out of state to help a child return home.

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http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.a ... yid=134364

[Oz girl]

I really hope that this family can sort things out and they now work through things at home

[Nihilanthic]

I hope WWASPS gets owned by this.

[Anonymous]

Island View is owned by Aspen you dumbfuck.

[hanzomon4]

wwasps? IV is an Aspen according to fornits wiki

[Anonymous]

Not a lot of ownag3 on program owners ever happen.

[Anonymous]

From the Island View Residential Treatment Center's Website:

Making a Deal under the Table is a self-defeating pattern for both parent and child that inevitably comes to roost after discharge. Motivation for such a ‘deal’ varies but sabotages treatment and renders the Center powerless in bringing about lasting change with the child. Let us give you some examples:

The parent is pressured by the child into coming home for a visit without the treatment team's approval and recommendation.

A parent is persuaded by Mr. Manipulation to come home for good as soon as he achieves the ‘Impact’ status without consultation with the treatment team.

You can readily see the pattern. A parent, feeling guilty for the ‘pain’ the child has to go through as part of the treatment process, feels compelled to “throw the child a bone.’ Holding a ‘carrot’ in front of the child is well and good, but not without the inclusion and discussion of the treatment team. The result of this type of misplaced reward or poor attempt of behavior modification inevitably spells disaster. The child is coached to put on an act in order to gain a short-term reward without internalizing a genuine change.

Inevitably, every year a small handful of parents fall into this trap. When we become aware of this ‘secret deal making’, we ask the parent to withdraw their child from the Center, as we simply are rendered powerless to bring about genuine change in the youngster.

‘Enmeshment’ or Blurred Boundaries between the role of Parent and Child – is a problem that is particularly difficult to rectify as many parents who are enmeshed with their child are ‘blind’ to the situation. Without rehearsing a number of psychiatric and psychological terms, let us give you a few examples:

Even though the rules are that a resident on ‘Orientation’ Status is restricted to two phone calls home per week, and the therapist has a weekly phone session with the family, the parent calls the Center every day, inquiring of anybody she/he can get a hold of, about the general well being of the child.
On a phone call home, the child tells his parents that he is depressed, and doesn’t know if he can make it through the rest of the week without ‘blowing up and losing his level.’ He states that the teachers don’t give him any help in school, and his houseparents pick on him, expecting more from him than any other kid on his team. The parents respond to the child by sharing their frustration about this and reassure him that they will take care of it. They call and ask that the therapist be pulled out of a session for an urgent call. Once on the phone, they state that they’ve just talked to their son, and he seems desperate. They ask that the therapist meet with him right away to prevent him from blowing up. They share their concern that the child is not getting the help he needs, and that until he does, he should not be accountable for his actions. When a child shares her disappointment with her father that she was denied a level she applied for, he immediately contacts the center, demanding to know the reason why. He suggests that this disappointment is not helpful to his daughter’s self-esteem, and that perhaps the expectations placed on her are too high. During a family therapy session, a child’s therapist confronts him in front of his parents about his recent aggressive and bullying behavior towards several of his teammates. She outlines the hurtful impact of this behavior, and establishes a further consequence should this behavior continue. When she asks the parents how they feel about this, his mother, clearly upset, states that she is uncomfortable with the stern tone of voice used by the therapist. She suggests that maybe before the therapist singles out their son, she should find out what her son’s teammates may have done to provoke him. A child is placed at Island View by her parents for drug dependency, oppositional defiance and depression. In family therapy, her parents disclose that they have had marital problems for many years. Her mother also shares with the therapist that she was not as supportive of sending her daughter away to Island view, but that he was adamant about placing him. Together, they acknowledge that they often use their daughter as a buffer to avoid dealing with their relationship problems. They agree to see a marriage counselor at home to address these problems. After five months of treatment, the mother calls her child’s therapist and tells him that she is pulling her daughter from treatment. She states that her daughter has cried nonstop during the last three phone calls, and she feels she is losing her spirit. She states that she will arrive at Island view by the weekend to pick her up. When the therapist asks if the child’s father feels the same way, the mother states that they are separating with the intention to divorce. She decides to rescue her daughter and bring her back home to live with her.
On a phone call home, a child tells his mother he is confused about a recent intervention, and voices frustration about how to handle it. His mother, having just heard from the therapist the purpose of the intervention, wants to help her son feel better. She tells him why they are doing it, and what emotion they are trying to illicit from him. She suggests to her son that if he just gave his staff what they are looking for, they would probably get off his back.
All of these case examples have the same underlying flaws of a parent-child relationship. What is it they all share in common? Parents who use the child to deal with their own problems or parents who fail the child by not allowing the adolescent to deal with the consequences of his or her behavior.

While it is normal and to a degree expected for a parent to protect a child, some parents literally "protect their child" into profound psycho-social pathology. How do they do it? By mitigating, rescuing and ‘red-crossing’ the child from experiencing the natural consequences for maladaptive behavior Ã

[Anonymous]

http://www.greatlakesconsult.com/testimonials.php

[Anonymous]

From the Island View FAQ Page:

How long will my child be required to stay at Island View?
What is the average length of stay?

Island View does not subscribe to a predetermined or set length of stay. Consistent with our treatment philosophy, we believe that the length of stay should largely be determined by the child. That is to say that the child should not graduate from the program until he/she has accomplished the individual treatment and educational objectives, which have been developed by the parent/guardian, the multi-disciplinary team at Island View, and the child.

The length of stay varies. A number of factors are at stake that will determine the length of stay. Of all such factors, the most salient ones include:

The relative complexity of the psycho-social and educational history of the child prior to admission. Typically, the more complex, the longer the stay.

The onset of problems and difficulties. In other words, did the problems start one year or ten years ago. Typically, the older and more entrenched the problem is, the longer the stay.

The follow-up and aftercare plan. A child that will go to a boarding school with a variety of support services following graduation from Island View, may likely have a shorter stay than a child that will return home, enroll in a public school and continue with individual and/or family therapy. In other words, the complexity and relative support afforded the Island View graduate has an impact on the length of stay.

[Anonymous]

Utah should be banned from operating programs.  That would solve 50% of the problem.

[Anonymous]

Missing Clayton teen found
By Todd C. Frankel

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

11/17/2007

Emily Graeber had no idea who they were, this man and woman who somehow had tracked the runaway teenager across some 2,000 miles, from her home in Clayton to an apartment in Oakland, Calif.

Emily, 15, did not recognize their names. She did not know their faces. Nothing registered from the hundreds of TV and newspaper stories, the appearance on Oprah. Even the name of the couple's son, Shawn Hornbeck, sounded only vaguely familiar.

Emily was just stunned that after 18 days on the run — dropping out of sight, alarming her parents and friends — she had been found. And she had been found by Craig and Pam Akers — the parents from Richwoods who had hunted for their own missing child for four years before he miraculously was discovered alive in January with another kidnapped boy in Kirkwood.

"Her reaction was one of shock, disbelief. She asked us, 'How did you know I was here?'" Craig Akers recalled Friday. "She didn't know who we were. She didn't really know who Shawn Hornbeck was or the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation. Then we explained why we were there."


Emily had disappeared on Oct. 29 after boarding a Southwest flight in St. Louis. She was headed for Utah, where since March she had attended a residential treatment center for troubled teens. But she never got off the plane in Salt Lake City. Authorities believe she stayed on the plane as it flew to its final destination in Oakland. She disappeared. Her family panicked.

But a runaway teen is not a law enforcement priority. A federal study found that 350,000 youths were reported as runaways to authorities nationally in 1999 alone.

Emily's family, who could not be reached for comment Friday, turned to the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation, a group founded by the Akerses to help the families of missing children. The foundation runs a website, alostchild.org, and issues "ShawnAlerts" about missing children in Missouri and Illinois. Its biggest tool is the name, which attracts public and media attention.

"If that is what it takes to bring missing kids home, then Craig and Pam Akers are behind it — Shawn himself is behind it," said Sherri Martin, foundation administrator.

At about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, the foundation received a call from someone in Oakland claiming to know where Emily was. Craig Akers verified the information. By 3 a.m. Thursday, he felt someone needed to get to Oakland immediately. No time to alert authorities. And Graeber's family was dealing with another family emergency — Emily's maternal grandmother was near death.

"Pam and I decided the easiest thing was to go ourselves," Craig Akers said.

It was their first trip to the Bay Area. Once in California, Craig Akers said he called police to ask for help, in case something went wrong, but was told that could take hours.

Already on an unorthodox adventure, he decided not to wait. The couple knew Emily was staying with a teenage boy and his mother. Emily had met the teenage boy on a bus, telling him she needed a place to stay so she would not have to return to what she called her boarding school, Craig Akers said. She was not hurt, not hungry — just hiding.

"She was very, very fortunate," Craig Akers said. "She was taken in by decent people."

Craig Akers said he explained why they were there, that they needed to get back to St. Louis so Emily could say goodbye to her grandmother. And Craig Akers told Emily her parents agreed she would not be forced to return to the Utah treatment center.

Within an hour, they were back at the airport. And a missing child was on her way home.

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Be nice to HEAR from Emily herself.  I'm sure she has something to say about why she did what she did.

[Anonymous]

Well DUH like the girl was allowed to watch Oprah while in a locked boarding school?  Or use the Internet freely?  Read a newspaper?

Man, these reporters are just fucking clueless.