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RMA Survivor:
The person Richard Armstrong raped was also a former RMA staff member.
What is remarkable is how Tim Brace, Steve Rookie, Richard Armstrong, Caroline Wolfe... None of them had college degrees, actual licensing or formal training in any of these emotional therapy areas. Steve Rookie was hired to be the cook for RMA back in 1985. Richard Armstrong was a handyman at RMA in 1984. Not even a real staff member really. But these people saw the money to be made, which is why they got deeper and deeper in to it all.
Becoming an escort/bounty hunter? What nonsense! Armstrong had no more skill or background or knowledge of that than he did therapy and counseling.
Brett Carey and Lisa Carey? These two arrived at RMA in late 84 or early 85 and were the most calm, rational of the staff there at the time. Polite, friendly and completely innocent. But that soon changed. Within months they were "experts". Soon running raps, helping facilitate propheets. And no experience in any of this stuff. It's all Kool-aid drinking and "show me the money!" for these people.
Caroline Wolfe had attended CEDU as a student. Her background was for sex. As I recall she was prostituting herself on the streets of LA and her parents didn't like that. Next thing she is a staff at RMA shortly after it opened in 1982. Full of anger and self-righteousness, but no training. Patient one day, doctor the next. Most high schools had a sex education class. RMA had Caroline Wolfe. Every rap, every word out of her mouth was about sex. All girls were sluts or teases, all guys were looking for a cheap piece of ass and treated all girls as pieces of meat. But being staff wasn't enough for our new patient-turned doctor. Caroline Wolfe hooked up with former RMA student Jackie Guber, daughter to the famous Barbara Walters and started their own school. New Hampshire or Maine was where it was located. So Jackie too went from being a patient to being a doctor ready to cure teens with her two years of RMA experience under her belt.
Tim Brace? What a nutcase! The guy barely had a high school education. He did horrible, horrible things to himself and others before somehow being sent to RMA to run the show by Mel Wasserman. And he yelled and screamed all the time. Yes, he smiled a lot, tried to act all warm and fuzzy, but deep down he was a sadist. Running a school? What possible training or schooling or experience did he have? Zero! Giving therapy to teens? Nada! Professional counseling experience? Zip! He was a sadist, running a prison camp. Even the Nazi's had people with experience in such positions. Did you ever once hear a single RMA or CEDU staff member professionally diagnose a students actual issues? Their trauma's? They weren't TRAINED!! They had no clue. They made it up as they went along, constantly adjusting the program, altering propheets, coming up with new catch-phrases to throw around and that was all they were really capable of.
Russ Decker? The guy was a bully and admitted it when he arrived at RMA in 1984. You could see the anger just under the surface every day. He always jumped in during raps to scream loudest, always with trivial comments but at the loudest volume. He loved it! He spoke in every propheet and later every rap about how he had beat the shit out of people all his life. How his father encouraged it. And while at RMA, mainly he talked to others about it, not so much to say how he has dealt with it himself, but just to say he had been there, done that. More like showing off. He whizzed through RMA, probably one of the biggest "look goods" to grace the school with his presence. Outside of staff presence he was always the bully, always looking to knock someone down, literally or figuratively. His cop outs always ate up hours in a proheet. He had no end to list of shit he had done. To learn he beat his own step-son? Yeah! No surprise there! Like father, like son! RMA didn't teach you to deal with it and get better. These schools reinforced it. Russ Decker as a staff member? No different than Caroline Wolfe or her boyfriend Randy Eide. Randy was also a former CEDU student. Street fighter, boxer who loved to hurt people. Made in to a staff member.
What blows me away is that in my work, everyone is given drug screens, background checks. They find stuff on you from way back! But somehow all these totally unqualified staff, with the most wicked backgrounds, manage to find plenty of work around kids. Could you imagine a normal school hiring one of these people? The parents in the neighborhood would go berserk! People would lose their jobs for hiring such deranged, sadistic, criminals, lacking in college degrees and professional backgrounds. And this goes to show that the Teen Emotional Growth industry has slightly different standards.
Che Gookin:
--- Quote from: "try another castle" ---Che: still no Patrick Stambusky/McKenna listing for Monarch. He founded the place, as far as I know.. not Tim.
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Tier 1- Direct linage to CEDU via Ex-Cedu employees or Students
Duckfarm------------------------Founded by or with the help of -------------------------------current ex-CEDU employees/Residents
Benchmark ----------------------Jane Longnecker ---------------------Joesph Powell- Paul Ornaeles(?)
Monarch -------------------------Patrick Stambusky/McKenna-------------------Tim Earle and ?
Steve Rookey
Carlbrook------------------------Tim Brace -------------------------------Tim Brace and ?
Ventures------------------------ Steve Rookey ------------------------Steve Rookey
Northwest Academy------------ RMA/Redux
Aspen Swift River-------------- Rudy Bentz, Brett and Lisa Carey, Rey and Sharon Kreider
Transitions of Galveston (Phasing out http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/p ... 0706.shtml)
Island
Echo Springs-----------------------Doug Kim Brown-------------------Doug Kim Brown-Lisa Sutton (Thanks bro!)
Ascent (confirmation needed http://www.ascent4teens.com/staff.htm--- mainly need the back story of Ascent. )
Mount Bachelor Academy--------------Tim Brace, Brett and Lisa Carey, Rey and Sharon Kreider
Shortridge Academy--------------------Adam Ranier/Bruce Wilson-------------
Cherokee Creek School----------------Jackson Culotta/Beth Black
Ron May/Jane May
Genelle Petry
David LePere
Coronada ------------------------------ Saul Rudman (program closed down and reopened under new management as New Summit Academy)
Homelines-------------------------------Richard Armstrong
Tier 2- Founders have worked at programs and have had some exposure to CEDU methodology, but are not ex-cedu employees or students.
Aspen Achievement Academy -------- A couple of the founders came from ASR..
New Summit Academy----------- Key members worked with Saul Rudman at Coronada
-->Coranada Employees now in charge at NSW:
Mario Duran
Heather Tracy
Anonymous:
I was a student at cascade from mid 86 to 1990. Don't ask, I was held back innumerable times, and as the only insurance case I know of at the time I was there, I now think there were alterior motives obviously. When I got there there were students named Grant Price, and Justin Merritt at cascade. I can't remember the others I recognized on their website. These were definitely cascade students. Anyone else know any info on them?
Anonymous:
oh sorry grant price and justin merritt was in reference to carlbrook.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "lena" ---I was a student at cascade from mid 86 to 1990. Don't ask, I was held back innumerable times, and as the only insurance case I know of at the time I was there, I now think there were alterior motives obviously. When I got there there were students named Grant Price, and Justin Merritt at cascade. I can't remember the others I recognized on their website. These were definitely cascade students. Anyone else know any info on them?
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--- Quote from: "lena" ---oh sorry grant price and justin merritt was in reference to carlbrook.
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Sorry, I'm confused... Are you saying that Grant Price and Justin Merritt (who were both part of the founding lineup at Carlbrook in 2001*) were both students at Cascade School when you were there during 1986-1990?
* Founders & Board of Regents, Carlbrook School (2001):[/b]
Glenn F. Bender, Ph.D., Dean of Academics
Justin J. Merritt J. D., Dean of Faculty and Administration
Jonathan Gurney, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., Dean of Advising
Timothy B. Brace, M.A., Dean of Students
R. Grant Price, M.A., Dean of Admissions
Jason L. Merritt, M.D., Consulting Physician[/list]
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