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Mount Bachelor Academy Shut Down
Ursus:
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--- Quote from: "psy" --- Right, but if they were in such a situation they could sue the state for the loss of income as a result of false allegations. They didn't bother pursuing that angle. I'm not sure if they even challenged the findings at all in any specifics.
I mean let's face it. They were torpedoed and sunk in one shot. That email sent out to all the parents caused irreparable damage, regardless of accuracy. If there were false statements in there as a result of negligence or actual malice, MBA would have a hell of a case. The fact that they're choosing to bow out completely rather than contest the findings or sue for damages implies they have enough to hide that they aren't willing to be open about their practices.
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Well maybe this will finally put an end to the "lifestep" aspect of the programs under Aspens management. If they were truly dressing kids up in French maid outfits or making them act out sexually then the people involved should be sued or put in jail. I cannot believe this was written into a procedure anywhere. No company would do this or put themselves at this type of risk. If these things did occur then it must have been locally managed and determined by a few staff to be okayed.
I think this will send a very clear message to the rest of the programs. From what I have read there were only a few left that used this method and this exposure will probably kill the use of lifesteps in any other place.
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Isn't Copper Canyon Academy an Aspen Program? For some reason, I am under the impression that they also use or used to use the Lifesteps "emotional growth curriculum." I've also read that they appear to have some kind of an arrangement with Aspen Ranch, where kids from the latter are transported to the former, in order to participate in these seminars / workshops.
Academy at Swift River, Mount Bachelor's sister school, definitely uses or used to use a "proven emotional growth program consisting of carefully sequenced Lifesteps." But you would know all about that, wouldn't you?
Whooter:
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Academy at Swift River, Mount Bachelor's sister school, definitely uses or used to use a "proven emotional growth program consisting of carefully sequenced Lifesteps." But you would know all about that, wouldn't you?
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ASR dumped that in 2005 I believe.
Troll Control:
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Academy at Swift River, Mount Bachelor's sister school, definitely uses or used to use a "proven emotional growth program consisting of carefully sequenced Lifesteps." But you would know all about that, wouldn't you?
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ASR dumped that in 2005 I believe.
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No, they still use them now. They may have changed the name to "Transitions" like MBA did, but it's still the same LifeSteps seminar series.
Ursus:
Speaking of Aspen programs' usage of Lifesteps, NorthStar was also using it in their "emotional growth curriculum" back in 1998. Does anyone know if they still do?
Ursus:
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--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---Academy at Swift River, Mount Bachelor's sister school, definitely uses or used to use a "proven emotional growth program consisting of carefully sequenced Lifesteps." But you would know all about that, wouldn't you?
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ASR dumped that in 2005 I believe.
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No, they still use them now. They may have changed the name to "Transitions" like MBA did, but it's still the same LifeSteps seminar series.
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I don't believe they "dumped it," but they may have toned it down a bit ... perhaps in 2005 or 2006, perhaps due to the advent of Frank Bartolomeo's tenure at ASR. Bartolomeo came from McLean Hospital in the Boston area, as well as a McLean-associated private practice, Children's Group Therapy Association. For a period he was also clinical director of a specialized trauma clinic, Children's Charter, Inc., which I believe is also in the Boston metropolitan area.
Bartolomeo would surely have had dealings with Sharon Levy, Director of Pediatrics for the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program at Children's Hospital in Boston and Associate Researcher at the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research ... and on the Advisory Board for STICC (Saving Teens in Crisis Collaborative), an enterprise founded by John D. Reuben.
I imagine that when John's son Mike Reuben started having problems with his heroin use (2004?), some or all of the aforementioned programs would have been consulted (McLean Hospital, Children's Group Therapy Association, Children's Charter, Inc., Children's Hospital in Boston). One or more of these ultimately referred Mike to Academy at Swift River and its "emotional growth curriculum," including its Lifesteps workshops.
Curious that Frank Bartolomeo also ended up at ASR around the same time.
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