Press Release

[Anonymous]

Call this guy, Michigan Dept of Health licensing division:

John Wilhelmsen at 517 241 1970 and explain your experience to the best of your ability and willingness, of course, but to add credence to the sort of treatment someone could expect to receive on LEVEL ONE, or FIRST PHASE for over 200 days in a row. The situation is that this kid cannot talk to the authorities at will, but if many survivor folks came out and voiced their experiences, opinions, etc... to Jim, well, he would have to take notes and would have more incentive to pull their license once and for all. We'll only get out of it what we put into it, so if nobody calls, writes, then nothing will happen. So far there have been at least 4 survivors who have contacted him, so that's a good start. By the middle or end of this week would be the absolute best time for folks to do this. Either way PFC is going through some major PR nightmares right now.

Also, if you are a survivor from a different program style, go ahead and call... it might help somehow.

I CALLED AND TO MY SURPRISE THIS PROGRAM IS NOT EVEN LISCENSED IN MICHIGAN THANKS TO A LOOPHOLE IN THE WHICH MEANS IT IS ONLY SUBJECTED TO INHOUSE OVERSIGHT.

Re. : "NOT EVEN LISCENSED IN MICHIGAN"

Could this be a factor in its closing, that it was not even licensed? Or is it no longer licensed because it already (just) closed?

[Anonymous]

it was licensed in its outpatient component and not the host homes since there's no law that requires those homes to be licensed as such. The paperwork to surrender the outpatient component license was reported to have been sent the last week in January. Typically these processes take a couple weeks. If you call back the last week in Feb. that would probably be the best time to find out their status.

RG