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Police probe abuse complaint
ajax13:
Where have we seen this before:
"Sanders, L. Attachment of Adolescent Males in a Residential Treatment Setting, UMI Publication, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2003.
Sanders, L. & Jamieson, J. Predictors of Academic Achievement for At Risk Adolescent Males in a Residential Treatment Centre, 2004.
Sanders, L., Committee Chair, Ontario Association for Treating Youth, Partners in Care- 1,2and 3:
Sanders, L. & Fulton, R. Educational Achievement and Attachment, The Bayfield School Outcome Study, 2006."
To obtain copies of the research projects contact Larry S. Sanders, Ph.D., Chairman/CEO, Bayfield http://www.bayfield.net/Research.html
Another asshole running an experimental project with captive adolescents.
wdtony:
Video about residential treatment, Dr. Charles Emmrys:
http://www.vimeo.com/14364283
wdtony:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/9017638.html
Troubled teen to be released from Ontario facility
Family not told where grandson will go
By The Canadian Press
Tue, Aug 24 (2010) - 2:26 PM
The family of a troubled Nova Scotia teen being treated for behavioural disorders at a facility in Ontario says he is being discharged Wednesday and they aren't being told where he's going.
The family, who can't be named to protect the youth's identity, says their contact with him has been suspended.
Nova Scotia's Department of Community Services sent a letter to his grandmother last week notifying her that access would be denied because the family had become an obstacle to providing the boy with the treatment he needs.
Roch Longueepee, who leads an advocacy group working with the family to bring the teen home, says they plan to challenge the access ban.
The 15-year-old has alleged he was abused at an Ontario treatment facility, a claim that is under police investigation.
wdtony:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le1683654/
N.S. family says it's not being told where troubled teen will be held
Boy claims he was abused at Ontario facility; family plans to challenge access ban
The Canadian Press
Published on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 2:47PM EDT
The family of a troubled Nova Scotia teen being treated for behavioural disorders at a facility in Ontario says he is being discharged Wednesday and they aren't being told where he's going.
The family, who can't be named to protect the youth's identity, produced a letter from Nova Scotia's Department of Community Services on Tuesday that said their contact with the boy had been suspended on the recommendation of the facility where he is housed.
The department sent the letter to his grandmother last week arguing that family contact had become an obstacle to the youth's treatment.
Roch Longueepee, who leads an advocacy group working with the family to bring the teen home, said they plan to challenge the access ban.
“I think what's happening here is that the government has its tail between its legs and this is just a desperate ploy to get rid of the key players,” he said.
He said the family will go to court Friday to argue that they have a right to know where the boy will be transferred.
The 15-year-old has alleged he was abused at an Ontario facility, a claim that is under police investigation.
He has been in the care of the government of Nova Scotia since November 2008, when it was determined he was a threat to himself and the community.
He suffers from various cognitive challenges, but his grandmother and the family's lawyer say there has never been a conclusive diagnosis.
Nova Scotia does not have a facility capable of addressing the boy's needs and the province's Supreme Court agreed last year that he could be sent away because all local treatment options had been exhausted.
Mr. Longueepee said that they have assembled a team of health care professionals willing to help the boy if he were brought home and placed in some sort of foster care.
He said the Nova Scotia government remains unwilling to compromise even though, after more than a year in Ontario, the boy's program does not appear to have worked.
“It's their way or the highway and the family resists what is going on because they are concerned for the welfare and safety of the boy and I think that's a legitimate concern.”
The boy has been in the care of his grandparents since he was a toddler.
wdtony:
http://www.metronews.ca/halifax/comment ... -s-dignity
Restoring a Nova Scotia boy's dignity
Urban Compass by Stephen Kimber
METRO HALIFAX
Published: August 23, 2010 9:00 a.m.
Nova Scotia’s Community Services Department has upped the ante: Last week it severed family access to a troubled Cole Harbour teenager it had shipped off to an Ontario residential care facility last year.
It will now apply to family court “to vary the current order with respect to access,” thus legalizing the elimination of the boys’ grandparents from any future role in his care.
Why?
According to an Aug. 19 letter to the grandparents from the department, the Ontario facility — Bayfield Homes — believes “family contact has become an obstacle to providing (the boy) with the treatment he requires in a highly structured residential facility.”
Really?
Could it be that family contact is an obstacle to the people who run that institution, and who profess to know best what is in the child’s now and future best interests?
Let’s recap.
The grandparents, who had raised the boy since he was a toddler and acknowledged he needed help they couldn’t provide, objected — in public — to the province’s plan to send him out of province for treatment.
They went to court in a lengthy but ultimately unsuccessful bid to bring him home.
They enlisted the aid of a New Brunswick child psychologist and other experts who came up with an alternative plan of care that would have seen the boy returned to Nova Scotia and cared for in a community setting.
Two weeks ago, the government turned down their plan.
Last spring, Restoring Dignity, a group advocating for victims of institutional abuse, took up the family’s cause, bringing allegations of mistreatment at Bayfield to the attention of various authorities in Ontario, including the province’s child advocate.
On July 19, the group organized a press conference to outline allegations the boy had been beaten for asking to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Ontario Provincial Police are investigating.
No wonder Bayfield isn’t happy.
The boy’s grandmother, admittedly, can be difficult. She’s relentless, even obsessive, about what she considers the best interests of her grandson.
Is that so bad? In three years, when the boy turns 18 and Bayfield washes its hands of him, who will be left to look out for his best interests?
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