I disagree wholeheartedly with the below quote. CEDU / Brown will not be financially able to fund a failed program for much longer.
They already sold their behavioral health facilities to pay for debt run up in the first few years of their operation. Following this, they had operating capital that was blown on physical improvements and funding losses from the decreasing population at all of the schools.
In each case, the course they take is to fire the last round of bad people in management and replace them with worse people.
Who do they choose? They choose the old guard of the Cult Brainwashing Boarding School Movement (WWASP etc.). These are people with limited knowledge and education, people, who don't realize that their time is past and the party is over.
CEDU RMA tried to train staff in 2000 to adopt a standard social service code of ethics.
The whole staff got up and refused to follow it. Not supprizingly, one can trace the beginning of the corporate disintegration to this exact incident.
Why? Because Brown was unwilling to fire dissenters; because they pretended nothing happened; beecause from that time forward the dimwit floor staff were in charge.
Thus, a precident was established at that time that if you are old-CEDU and you believe education is irrellivant, training is outside interferance, and ethics are imposed limitations then you have all the power.
This, therefore, established the persisting myth that high school graduates can run programs better than therapists.
It solidified the notion that those who understand the legal and ethical issues of treatment are worthless. It established that those who respect human rights are pawns of the liberal establishment to be scoffed at and laughed out of the room.
No, my friends, Brown/CEDU is not financialy solvent. This is the second round of losses in the tens of millions.
And, since they continue to operate outside the boundaries of ethical practice, continue to use uneducated hicks from Bonners Ferry as "counselors," continue to use token therapists to collect state school funding while ignoreing their warnings and ethical advisement, because they let uneducated and unethical people lead and manage their programs. Sorry, there will be a third round of losses in the tens of millions.
They are already gone and are just buying time, probably by lying to investors.
On 2004-04-11 13:17:00, Anonymous wrote:
"CEDU is a huge corporate conglomerate, while they show a large deficit, they still have more than that in solid assets, and income potential. If they can throw more money at the problem areas, shut people up , they will continue on their merry way, laying waste to god knows how many more people. I wish it weren't so, but it is, it is how this country is built. also, the economy has been down for a while, money is not tossed around quite as much as in the mid 90's, the heyday of cedu expansion"
This clearly can't fly in today's business climate - especially the sensitive and emotionally loaded human services climate of today.
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