Sorry for the anonymous post, but CEDU is very threatening...
Lori Rist? was in charge of the transition program in Running Springs California - She was a fabulously fine individual before CEDU. The cult brainwashed her with charisma and promises of enlightenment. She worked with Bill Lane - the ex Heroin addict CEDU Executive. That is the only one I know of except Billy - nice guy, who went to work in a program around Bend Oregon.
Lori saw the light and left as director of NWA sometime in the last year - too late to save her marriage.
Her husband (a therapist) Marc worked for BCA and fought the system with Rand Gurley and Jack Clearman for around three years. He fought them furiously to get rid of jump suits, get them unlimited religious privileges, to stop yelling in raps, to change the brainwashing in prophets and to stop them from playing head games on anxious, depressed, bipolar, paranoid, narcissistic and borderline kids. He believed some of the harsh program processes could be helpful for antisocials and non dual-diagnoses severe drug abusers, but not much else.
Rand, Marc Rob, Jack, and Jenny managed to get things under some slight control, but, the staff took the abuse underground and did abuse kids covertly at table assignments, on restrictions and by placing kids they did not like in dorms where they would be abused - or by shunning and tormenting them emotionally through other peers.
The Director, LaTeresa, who has no mental health experience or education, and the staff had an alliance and would not answer e mails from most therapists and would shun them along with any staff who questioned or tried to change anything about the program. This was highly effective for them in not changing anything and feeling righteous and powerful against the evil therapists.
Management then put the therapists in charge of team parent communications. This effectively forced them to either be in constant conflict with the program staff or sell out their ethics and "buy in." This would mean lying to the parents in team meetings under peer pressure, or losing your job. This was a deliberate action by management to make the therapists irrelevant while using them to get state school funding.
All of the above therapists were forced out for not lying, and for trying to protect kids rights, Two clinical directors who did "buy in" were eliminated just to show power.
Eventually they found therapists who would let CEDU control them, and, that is what they have at NWA, RMA, BCA and Milestones now.
What did Lori do to you? I can imagine that, back then, she must have been ve
