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ajax13:
It will be twenty-three years this summer since the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre was established as an arm of Miller Newton's Kids program.  The Kids name was dropped as a result of the negative publicity generated in the United States after the inherent problems at Kids began to garner public attention, but the program was brought to Calgary nevertheless.

Kids employee Dean Vause and numerous former Kids clients including Janne Holmgren were brought in to work at AARC, with Vause eventually supplanting any professionally qualified staff.  He remains in the conflicting position of sitting on the Board of Directors and holding the title of Executive Director.  After over twenty years of imposing the behavior modification techniques particular to the Seed/Straight/Kids sect, Dean Vause has no legal right to perform the treatment provided by AARC.  

AARC's two Clinical Directors, Brown and Imbach, are former clients of AARC who, like Vause, also lack any professional qualification to perform the aforementioned treatment used in AARC.

AARC continues to use amateur Peer Counselors in the manner of Straight and Kids, and continues to use the Recovery Home model passed down from the Seed to Kids.  This model was deemed unsafe in Florida almost forty years ago, and this finding was reconfirmed in California and other jurisdictions in the United States.

AARC continues to rely on support from the Calgary Police Service in the form of CPS officers attending AARC fundraising events in uniform.  CPS Detective David Rock, now deceased, investigated claims made by Christine Lunn, Rachael O'Neil and at least one other former female client.  Rock was, at the time of his investigation, in direct communication with Dean Vause, and Rock provided AARC with a statement to the effect that Christine Lunn had complained in order to facilitate legal action against AARC.  This in spite of the fact that the Statute of Limitations precluded M. Lunn from suing AARC.

Discoveries are ongoing in the suits launched by AARC against former clients Christine Lunn, Bodana Dye-Kibble, Rachael O'Neil and against former Kids client and AARC staff member Simi Bates.  AARC has also sued the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and a former computer technician, Amy Sparks, who attempted to act as a whistle-blower.

AARC remains unlicensed and continues to provide a Day Treatment Program in contradiction to Dean Vause's statment to the College of Alberta Psychoologiststhat AARC does not provide treatment.

none-ya:
These evil bastards just won't go away.

anonAARCgrad:
Watch for "20 Year" celebrations as they opened the building in 1992 and took their first inmate in April. I am sure the media will be slobbering over their "success". Doubt I'll get an invite  :cry:

ajax13:
I was speaking recently to a woman who attended an AARC beg-a-thon a couple of years ago.  She recounted that upon being introduced to her, the Wiz  kissed her on the lips.  Surprisingly, this experience does not seem to have left a favorable impression on her.

Curious that nobody was ever called to account for Rotary Club rep Rk Douggan and failed politician Jim Dinning arranging for Kids to receive $1.2 million back in '89.  In fact, nobody has ever had to answer for the Alberta Government paying to send Albertans off to Kids in New Jersey.  It just went away, like the the AARC story on Fifth Estate.

Alberta, Home of Induced Mass Amnesia.

spacecadet:
Re: The Fifth Estate, is AARC still suing those two young women who spoke out against them on the program?

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