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Aspen Education Group deceptively markets short term invalid
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--- Quote from: "Guest" ---Bottom line is that the kid was allowed to wander the facility completely unsupervised by any Aspen staff. this is not a 'secure and structured' environment to beging with. Then he was arrested and put in jail because of the program's actions in handling the behavior they said they could 'cure' when the parents enrolled him. So they failed to provide the appropriate environment and they failed to offer any therapy services, then to top it off, they left the kid in worse condition than when he arrived - untreated AND in jail AT THE PROGRAM'S REQUEST.
This is a travesty at many different levels, and unfortunately, this so-called 'outcome study' is bogus because it doesn't take into account at all the 50-65% of kids like Matt Pence that never 'graduate' their programs. These palces have a 50-65% failure rate RIGHT OFF THE TOP.
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This is right on. The other guy saying only grads should be counted is like counting only those who survive heart surgery in success data while ignoring those who didn't make it. Dishonest at best,
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Yes, any valid study would track all participants in the program, not just cherry-picked ones. 50-65% of kids who eneter programs are not helped at all and leave the program. Of the ones who finish, especially Aspen programs, many wind up dead from suicide or overdoses, but these are not counted in the surveys either. So maybe 25% finish and do well, which is a 75% failure rate.
Anonymous:
Dear lord in Heaven. In a fraction of the time you people spend in a circle jerk with Who, you could go get the damn facts and post them. Course, by page 2, he knew that any rational person had stopped reading and only got his propoganda.
1999 Behrens Clinical Director for Youth care
http://cache.zoominfo.com/cachedpage/?a ... me=Behrens
2002 Founded Canyon Research
http://canyonrc.com/experience.html
2003 - 2005 Behrens conducting surveys
http://www.strugglingteens.com/news/pre ... 060817.htm
2004 Behrens doing Consulting for AEG
http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/p ... 0626.shtml
2006 Behrens completes her survey results passed off as Independent Study
http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/p ... 5360.shtml
"We also tried to eliminate all students discharged from the programs before graduation because the clinical staff thought it was actually an inappropriate placement, or when they felt the program couldn't be helpful to the child. As a result, the operating assumption of the study is that the students included in the analyzed data were those who were appropriately placed."
http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/p ... 5494.shtml
Comment: ....It would be helpful to know more about Dr. Behren’s research design and methodology. I presume she drew a random sample for the study; otherwise, the results cannot be generalized to the school/residential population at large.
Jerry W Clark
Dba Behavioral Services Ltd
Reno, NV
No Jerry, she didn't. Families from 9 Aspen programs participated in her "study". She and all her staff have links to Aspen programs.
http://www.natsap.org/Behrens.doc
Jan Moss applies the "study" of 9 Aspen programs to entire industry
Disclosure Statement: Aspen Education Group provided funding for this study.
http://www.natsap.org/Outcome%20Study.doc
2006 Behrens is a contributor to NATSAPs "Journal of Therapeutic Schools and Programs.
http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/p ... 5456.shtml
ASPEN EDUCATION GROUP APPLAUDS STUDY
(April 26, 2007) According to an article on PRNewswire, Elliot Sainer, President of Aspen Education Group (AEG), Cerritos, CA, announced "AEG is extremely pleased to learn of the very positive findings from the final phase of our industry's first long-term, multi-year clinical study on the effectiveness of private therapeutic residential programs for adolescents. AEG will continue to advocate for new industry research that will further illustrate and promote the best practices and methodologies and enhance our industry's abilities to produce positive and long-lasting results in adolescent therapeutic education."
I guess he was pleased. He paid her to present AEG in the best possible light.
Anonymous:
ps If any of this information regarding the connection between Behrens and AEG is important, best go capture those pages before AEG has them removed/edited.
My guess is that Who so confidently put out the challenge to find anything that wasn't on the Fornits server, because he'd been busy cleaning up the internet, erasing all proof of the connection.
Well, we'll see if NATSAP removes the disclaimer that AEG paid for the study of 9 of their programs which Jan Moss then attempts to apply to the entire industry.
Anonymous:
Gosh guys, sorry for the confusion. I sincerely believed it to be an independent study. I had no idea AEG provided the funding.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "Guest29" ---ps If any of this information regarding the connection between Behrens and AEG is important, best go capture those pages before AEG has them removed/edited.
My guess is that Who so confidently put out the challenge to find anything that wasn't on the Fornits server, because he'd been busy cleaning up the internet, erasing all proof of the connection.
Well, we'll see if NATSAP removes the disclaimer that AEG paid for the study of 9 of their programs which Jan Moss then attempts to apply to the entire industry.
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so was that done?
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