Lest my outburst toward the troll contribute to the troll’s agenda to have this thread deviate from substantive issues and devolve into yet another “whooligan” wasteland of semantics games, I’ll reiterate some of the points posted by others on the topic, in brief.
• Fact: Investigators found nine substantiated allegations of child abuse and neglect as well as numerous licensing violations.
• Fact: This Aspen program (among others) runs "LifeSteps" workshops. LifeSteps was found by Oregon DHS to be child abuse.
MBA violated OAR 413-215-0076(3) regarding behavior management in that MBA required students to engage in an "emotional growth" curriculum, included but not limited to the Lifesteps program that was punitive, humiliating, degrading, and traumatizing. The "emotional growth" curriculum included, but was not limited to, sexualized role play in front of staff and peers, requiring students to say derogatory phrases about themselves in front of staff and peers, requiring students to reenact past physical abuse in front of staff and peers, permitting staff to engage in the usage of derogatory names, phrases and ridicule of students, and deprivation of sleep.
• Fact: Aspen’s MBA violated OAR 413-215-0056 regarding mandatory reporting in that student records indicate a student disclosed to a staff member prior sexual abuse but there is no indication in the record that the staff to whom the disclosure was made had complied with mandatory reporting requirements. Another student reported disclosing rape while at MBA to staff however there is no indication of a report to law enforcement or children's protective services.
• Fact: Aspen programs have had children die under their “care” due to negligence.
• Fact: Sergey Blashchishen’s August 28th, 2009 death at Sagewalk is the most recent example of just such tragedies.
• Supposition: The program shill known as “who” is dead inside. -My own reasonable inference.