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Oscar:
This article once again question the value of residential treatment.

"I’m back to 29 stone. Please help me. I know this is my fault but it’s out of Control", by Sharon Hendry, The Sun, April 21, 2010

They took her to the United States as marketing for the planned boarding school in the United Kingdom. But it seems that their marketing stunt backfired because first they couldn't detain her at their wilderness program as they can with U.S. clients. Second they failed to educate her parents. Parents who were so weak from illnesses that they should need treatment themselves.

Once again we have evidence showing that the decision to let someone enter residential treatment should be based on both will, determination and possibility among the parents to change. Otherwise it is money wasted.

I can't help thinking that this poor girl could have been helped way better by one of their other solutions - their Wellspring Fit Clubs. A combined effort from a social worker, a coach and a local fitness center could have helped this family better and Aspen could have earned their 5 minutes of attention in the media without risking a failure like this.

Whooter:
Oscar, This woman took herself out of the program before she completed it.  She is well aware of this and knows this is why she failed.  

I will read the article again, maybe I missed something.



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kirstin:

--- Quote ---I can't help thinking that this poor girl could have been helped way better by one of their other solutions - their Wellspring Fit Clubs. A combined effort from a social worker, a coach and a local fitness center could have helped this family better and Aspen could have earned their 5 minutes of attention in the media without risking a failure like this.
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OR maybe she should not have eaten so many pizzas, donuts, potato chips, chocolate, ice cream, cake, candy bars, buttered popcorn fatty foods.  This is her fault.  Wellspring did not fuck her life up Oscar.  Interesting you did not mention she did this to herself.

Oscar:
When I hire some people for a job here, I do some background check. Do they have family etc.

Wellspring should have checked up on her. In general I believe that her enrollment at Wellspring was a marketing stunt. They are in the planning process of a wellspring academy in U.K.

It was her choice to leave the program before time. However if a good kid hears that the parents are ill and unable to cope on their own, what kind of good kid would not choose to return home in order to to support the parents?

Second Wellspring should have visited U.K before accepting her. They should realize what they were sending her back to even if she had managed to graduate the program. I have been in the U.K. I was somewhat surprised with the layout of their supermarkets. In Denmark about 20 to 25 percent of the entire store is for fruit and vegetables. Our health care department have urged the supermarkets to change the layout of the stores so that candy are not placed directly in front of the checkout lines where children would use the time waiting to bully their parents into buying candy with their tearful doggy blue eyes. (They are selling contact lenses with color even to children today). The supermarket chains listened because the next step would have been legislation.

I didn't see what I call a modern supermarket while I was in London and I was around in several parts of this city. Some years back some kids from the U.K. participated in I know what you ate last summer filmed at a wellspring camp in California including visits to Wellspring Academy also in CA. Also these participants had difficulties returning to a country where the food culture suffers. Because the schools want to feed the children as cheap as possible, chicken nuggets and fries are served to children even in elementary schools.

The department of education in U.K knows that they have a problem but have not the money to do anything about it. They blame the city administrations and the city administrations blame the department of education for not giving additional funds for food.

Teenagers like Georgia Davis have 10 years of education telling them to eat chicken nuggets and fries on daily basis. Food served by her school! To image that a year in a boarding school should change that when her parents cannot support her and she wasn't given immigration status so she could leave the damaging environment she lived in makes me call the people who decided to use her for marketing naive at best.

kirstin:
Oscar we can blame the program all we want but it boils down to her putting crappy food into her body.  Nobody put a gun to her head and forced her to eat garbage.  She made herself sick.

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