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State revokes licenses of Putnam mental-health facility

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Anonymous:
The ERP therapy that SLS tried to market for years is actually responsible for the relapse of many SLS patients.  One thing that has not been mentioned often enough is that SLS Clinical Director Shawn Prichard had a program called the "mediation program" that was used for patients moving to the final phase of the program.  It was a signed contract between Prichard, Deletis (the ERP creator) and the stating SLS would permit them to use their drug of choice if they fulfilled each weekly obligation (work/school, budget, groups, etc).  

This tactic was employed to allow these patients - who are about to finally get back out to the community - to relapse and "need"  SLS services and ERP ALL OVER AGAIN.  Can we say terrible money making practice?

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Dysfunction Junction" ---This is astounding.  This program was operating right under my nose almost literally.  I had no idea it even existed.  Talk about a "media blackout" - this isn't even a blip on the radar.

On the flip side, I'm glad they're being shut down.  I can only hope that prosecutions are pursued for the false ststements to investigators and that the principals get what's coming to them.

I'm just really, really surprised that in a populated, wealthy area like this (Putnam county is sandwiched between Westchester Co, NY and Fairfiled Co, CT)these scumbags were able to fly under the radar for so long.  Usually the "not in my backyard" well-to-do locals would stop this kind of private prison in its tracks.  I suppose they misled the planning board as well.
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LoHud has been pretty good about reporting on this place, but the readership is mostly Putnam and Westchester counties, not national.

People also do not know how to categorize this place. Client population is both adolescent and young adult. People more focused on adolescent concerns think it should/will be taken care of by those overseeing adult facilities. Likewise the other way around. In fact, a comment to that effect was even posted when this place was first aired as a thread subject on fornits last September:  
SLS in Brewster, NY?
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HEAL has known about them for awhile, and has them described on the same page as Benchmark.

They were mentioned in this thread:
CARF/PFC/STRAIGHT Connections...
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Due to the lack of traffic on the New Info Forum, I had started a thread in the TTI, mostly based on the blog that Say-It-Ain't-So-Joe runs, but that was lost with the March-May-June DB loss we suffered earlier this year.

The only other thread (than the current one) subsequent to that DB wipeout is the other one Hurrikayne posted recently:
Federal judge blasts Putnam treatment facility
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Troll Control:
Thanks for the info, Ursus.  The "LoHud" must have a tiny readership because I have lived here almost my whole life and never heard of it.  It has got to be smaller than the Poughkeepsie Journal which is a relatively small paper that covers most of the lower Hudson Valley.

Anyway, I'm glad that the information is public and I am outraged over the conduct of SLS and sincerely hope the principals will get what's rightfully coming to them.

Ursus:
LoHud stands for the Lower Hudson region of the New York Journal Times (Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties). I may be wrong about this, but I suspect that the major venue of access is via the internet, and not via paper or subscription access. It has a forum attached, and some of the readership can get quite involved "discussing" the news.

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

I think that region "hides" facilities/programs quite well as long as they are small enough. You've probably driven right past SLS if you were ever in Brewster, and didn't even know it. It is housed in a small number of Victorian houses that are an integral part of that landscape.

Two other programs in that general area are Green Chimneys (special needs and special behaviors) and New Hope Manor (adolescent girls on the wayward path), although the latter may well no longer be in existence.

Anonymous:
Their is also another program that is the exact same type of format as SLS called Search For Change.  They have the same types of OMH licensing as SLS yet they have no problem staying within compliance of the laws and treating patients appropriately.  SLS even sells it's Sigmund software to Search For Change so you have to wonder why they haven't sat down with the owners of that facility and asked how they can treat people without violating civil rights or using abusive practices.

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