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How many deaths have occured at Aspen Ed programs so far?
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "Inculcated" ---Island View (The facility where Brendan Blum died before that location was purchased by Aspen Education Group…
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Mmmm... You may be confusing particular deaths with their respective programs. Which is certainly easy to do, given their number!
Brendan Blum died of a bowel infarction on June 2007 at Youth Care Inc., now dba as Youth Care of Utah, and located in Draper, Utah. Then, and still, an Aspen Education Group program. As a result of his death, Youth Care was put on probation (not even fined), but was completely free to take on new clients. Which they've continued to do.
For more information on Brendan Blum, please check out THIS link.
Island View RTC (previously known as Island View Academy) in Syracuse, Utah, is another Aspen Ed program. They did have a suicide in 2004, which allegedly occurred before Aspen purchased the facility.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: "Whooter" ---Even the deputy conducting the investigation indicated that there is difficulty differentiating between a behavior issue and real symptoms. I believe when they get down to the root cause that this is what they will find.
When you are dealing with kids who are on a hike voluntarily and a child is complaining of feeling ill and wanting to stop then I believe it would be reacted to more quickly than if a child in a program exhibited the same symptoms and asked to stop. This is because the staff needs to weigh the behavior issue and try to determine if the child is trying to manipulate the staff or is really sick. This ends up playing against the child’s chances of getting help more quickly.
Hiking groups outside of programs do not have to weigh these options.
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Why is it even necessary to differentiate between a behavioral issues and real symptoms? Isn't it supposed to be "Safety First?" I guess not!
Why, indeed, is it that programs and some otherwise well-meaning parents seem to think that the appropriate course of "remedy" for undesirable behavior is necessarily psychologically punitive? Sure, actions have their consequences, but wilderness is hardly the place to work those out, don't ya think? Especially when those "consequences" have ended up as being death all too many times!
My guess is that a lot of those parents, as well as, and especially as, those parents who are misled into believing the program experience to be one of some ill-defined therapeutic value, are not entirely aware of what actually goes on in the field, where the rubber meets the road.
There is a mindset at work in programs that is incredibly derisive of kids, ever so well spelled out by that excellent quote provided by Inculcated... What kind of "professionals," with children's best interests ostensibly at the fore, are so jaded and filled with cynicism that they refer to a kid as "Mr. Manipulation" on their website, their marketing facade presented to the world at large?
Troll Control:
Well said, Ursus. And clearly a window into the twisted thinking behind these programs.
Inculcated:
Thank you Ursus.That clears up some confusion for me and helps me to
follow the title of the thread with the answer that thus far now I am aware of
three deaths that have occurred in Aspen education Group programs.
Sergey Blashchishen and Matthew Meyer andBrendan Blum
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Inculcated" ---Thank you Ursus.That clears up some confusion for me and helps me to
follow the title of the thread with the answer that thus far now I am aware of
three deaths that have occurred in Aspen education Group programs.
Sergey Blashchishen and Matthew Meyer andBrendan Blum
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There have been a total of 6 since 2000. See Oscars data below:
--- Quote from: "Oscar" ---From our victim list pages:
1980's: 1 (SUWS - However before Aspen ownership)
2000-2004: 2 (Island View and Lonestar Expeditions)
2005-2009: 4 (SUWS, Aspen Achievement Academy, Youth care and Sagewalk)
They are not among the most deadly programs, but who is setting the numbers determing what kind of number it takes before the entire operation is judged as a failure.
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