What you claim sounds fantastic. But sounds fantastic is what got me sent to a hellhole. The proof is in the pudding. You are anonymous. You could be anybody, including a program representative. You're very well spoken. So well spoken I find it hard to believe you are 18. I mean what 18 year old says "milieu"!?1?! What 18 year old knows what Harm Reduction is? Your claims sound so fantastic that it's hard to believe such a place could operate and stay afloat given the level of service you claim to provide. You must be extremely expensive. A good program? My god what a claim. We've never heard that here before and had it turn out to be false, now have we? Forgive me if I sound skeptical. I'm just naturally that way.
The only thing I like is your claim that it's totally voluntary. If that's true, and your marketing is accurate (meaning infomed consent) and kids choose to go there and can leave at any time, then I wouldn't care about the rest.
Are there any ex-students that can confirm your claims?
I'm well-spoken and knowledgeable because I actually, y'know...
read books, as opposed to letting my intellect atrophy as so many of my peers do. My use of clinical language (i.e. milieu) is the product of an adolescence spent in and out of mental hospitals and places similar to Summit; if you have more than half a brain, eventually the psych-speak will rub off on you.
I'm not claiming Summit is fantastic by any stretch of the imagination; I could list the multitude of fucked-up things about the place for you too.
The Department of Education paid for my time there, although I recall hearing once that tuition was somewhere in the neighborhood of 30K a year.
I can prove my age and the fact that I was at Summit for that stretch of time. Message me if you genuinely want proof.
Yes, it's a completely voluntary placement, and I chose to leave of my own accord. I do recall one student who came back after dropping out for a while; he said he was in some sort of legal trouble and that he returned to stay out of jail.
i could get you in touch with some other former Summit students if you so desire.