Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Aspen Education Group
CRC Health Annual Report: "Highly Leveraged"
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "ggggggggggggggggggggggg" ---Tell yourself whatever you need to in order to assuage your guilt. You know I hit the nail on the head.
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wtf are you talking about? I was agreeing with you, jackass. :D
The 'creep' I was referring to was the one you were getting into it with, not you.... :beat:
Use your head before you click submit, why don't ya. Sheesh. ::)
Anonymous:
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Programs flock to where they can get away with it. Lax regulation and oversight is both a precursor to judicial abuses and program construction. So the judicial abuses and Aspen's revenue aren't directly connected, but also not entirely a coincidence. Wherever there's a local culture of child abuse being okay, that's where you'll find programs.
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Most businesses look for the most favorable place to establish themselves, not just programs.... low tax rate, acceptable community, ability to conduct their business with the least amount of resistence from local officials and regulations.
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You are right, and let us look at the places favored by teen RTC's like Aspen. Remote, rural counties without a lot of business willing to offer up their behinds to a player who can bring in revenue. Counties with locals who look like they would be rejected at a Deliverance remake casting call due to "satirical hyper-realness". In return for jobs and revenue, the Counties provide programs with a private police via the local Sheriff's department, lax inspections, and protection from State officials.
Pennsylvania is an example of a state suffering from chronic economic depression. Outside the major cities, PA's mountains have areas of abject poverty that resemble the most impoverished regions of the Appalachians. Poor areas will not only overlook the abuses of the program, they'll help block inquiries into the goings on.
The poster believes businesses seek out areas with "low tax rate, acceptable community, ability to conduct their business with the least amount of resistence(sic) from local officials and regulations".
When the poster says businesses pick an area with the least "resistance", he/she means areas who will overlook regulation and not enforce existing guidelines.
It's a mystery. The industry claims it strives to meet ethical and local guidelines, yet they seek out locations where the local cretins will overlook safety issues and strong arm restraint tactics. Locals will accept the program's representation of itself and parrot the party line: "Those kids are really disturbed", "You have to whip on those J.D.'s, it's all they understand", "Some kids don't make it but the program helps so may others, it is worth it".
This is the kind of blind faith from the community a program needs to operate. The locals have to be brought on board, if the program disgusts the locals they will become spies and hurt business. No program can last without the locals' complicity.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "blombrowski" ---...ASPEN owns no programs in Pennsylvania.
If anyone has more info on the programs involved, please do tell.
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List of Aspen schools in PA:
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The highlighted programs make Aspen a suspect for involvement in the Luzerne County situation. Add that to their financial misery and you have the picture of a very leveraged business with a strong motive to boost revenue in what has historically been their bread winner.
No, it does not look like a stretch to tie Aspen to the corruption in PA. It is interesting that Brian didn't know Aspen had facilities in PA - I didn't either, which is why this 10 K report to the shareholders is useful. You've got the names of all programs and the status of the property, owned or leased, and the whole board of directors to run checks on until you have a $1,000 PACER bill on your hands.
Whooter:
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--- Quote from: "gggggggggggggggg" ---That you, or anyone else thinks they can 'problem solve' their way out of adolescence says a lot. You remind me of Greg Ninnear's character in Little Miss Sunshine. That loser who thinks he can "step" his way out of whatever life situation he finds himself in and then desperately trying to convince others that he has "the answer". That he's relevant at all. It's common practice for you to see kids as a commodity. Their futures to be traded. Be it you, The Who or a composite thereof, it's telling. Children are not commodities. This shouldn't be an "industry" at all and the comparisons disgust most feeling people.
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God, I so fully agree with you. Who the hell is this asshole coming on here pushing this line of bull expecting people to buy it? People must be really stupid to fall for this line of "reasoning." If I could just have five minutes alone with this creep....
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Thats a whole different issue whether or not the industry should exist or if it is relevant or not. What we were talking about is the industry complying with local rules as other businesses do and how they need to cope with the various privacy laws.
By the sound your post you seem to be the ass hole in this conversation. Stay on topic or shut TF up.
Anonymous:
Addendum: The PA facilities didn't post:
Cove Prep
Lancaster
New Perspectives at White Deer Run
Blue Mountain
New Directions of Cove Forge
Cove Forge Renewal Center
White Deer Run of Allentown
White Deer Run of Altoona
White Deer Run of Harrisburg
White Deer Run of Lewisburg
White Deer Run of New Castle
White Deer Run of Pottsville
White Deer Run of Williamsport
WDR of York
Cove Forge Behavioral Health System at Pittsburg
Cove Forge Behavioral Health System at Williamsburg
White Deer Run Cove Forge Manor House
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