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Think about this-450 kids times $4000.00 a month

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Anonymous:
Someone said that Spring Creek Lodge has about 450 kids.  Not only is this bizarre if it is true, it is a cash cow blow out! $1.8 MILLION A MONTH!!!!!  Pleeeezzzzeeeeee! This is only one of the programs, does anyone have the numbers on the other? What I would liek to know also is does SCL have the quota for employees to meet this number of kids? What parent would place there kid in a group of over 400 kids? Talk about an assembly line and cookie cutter program. With or without abuse, it is insane to think your kids can get help with that many others.

Anonymous:
Not that it makes a HUGE difference, but Spring Creek Lodge is $2900 a month.  If they do indeed have 400 kids, they aren't all running around in a big crowd out of control.  They have their groups, I think I saw Melissa mention the name of her "family" - After all these years, they can handle it...it would just be a matter of hiring enough staff.

FaceKhan:
Whats far more interesting is that one of former program directors stated publicly that he sent 80% of the revenue to WWASP. That means those kids are being supervised, fed, clothed, and "treated" on $580 a month. Any professional in mental health can tell you that it costs at the minimum more than twice that amount to actually treat someone in a residential setting. Decent food, electricity, and running water alone would cost that much.  

WWASP just pockets the money and if your kid lives through it is only by luck because when they get sick at the program they are denied medical care and little problems like sanitation become big problems when you have 500 people swimming in the same shit.

Anonymous:
Are you talking about Amberley Knight, the former director of Dundee that didn't know her ass from a hole in the ground and instead of being fired, chose to quit before the heat burned her ass?  Yeah, right, I'd believe anything she says!! NOT! that came from one of those newspaper articles, right?

MelissaR:
There are now 500+ kids at SCL. There are about 20 lower level male and female families, and they are supervised 'round the clock, shuffled in and out of classrooms, cafeteria, etc. The facility at Spring Creek is just not large enough to accomodate that many kids. They had to move all the upper level students off the facility and bus them in each day. When I was on the upper levels I lived in a house about 20 minutes away from the facility at one point. Since there are so many kids, the majority of time is spent walking to and from places, "orderly", sitting in class, standing in line to eat.... it cuts into nearly 2/3 of mealtimes, and 1/3 of classtimes....and then a good portion of the time in class you're being hounded and harassed by the "teachers". It's incredibly difficult to get any work done. Kids have to sit on the floor, there aren't ever enough chairs, food runs out and you get whatever scraps are in the kitchen if you're "last lunch," there is never enough toilet paper, and the place is always filthy, laundry gets bumped back weeks and weeks, so you're without clean uniforms, but worry not, they still find all the time in the world to pick, prod, discipline, manipulate, consequent, etc.

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