OK, third-hand experience:
My grandaughter, from Casa by the Sea (WWASPS) in Mexico, told me:
She had a friend, a great basketball coach for my grandaughter, who turned 18, and, being on already-treacherous ground with her parents, signed herself out and was completely alone. She was basically pushed out the front fortress doors, and was said to have tried to make her way to aunts and uncles in Texas with $50 from WWASPS. Remember that Casa is about 12 miles out of Ensenada, on a freeway, and getting into the town itself is a challenge. One can only imagine how this 18yo made it to Texas. [All this was pre-release, as my grandaughter talked to her just prior to the 18yo's release.] My grandaughter, who was very fond of the girl, still wishes she could make contact to assure that all went well, but contact between former inmates is as impossible as WWASPS can make it.
Another girl, upon turning 18, was set to go to her uncles's dental practice in a town near us in Northern California. {We thought maybe this information was passed by our grandaughter in a censored letter to us in hopes that we would contact this girl. We called every dentist in Mt. Shasta and Redding, asking for "Monica"..."uuuhhhh, no one here by that name". Turns out, it was just a random statement, and our grandaughter still wonders if the girl made it into a "real life" after Casa, as she seemed to have not been afforded the opportunity to train in her uncle's dental practice.)
A third girl {first-hand experience by emails between her and me), left when she turned 18, fortified by money from her step-father, one of two stepfathers, who financed her ***38 months*** in WWASPS, the last in Casa by the Sea. She was financed home, but home was not the Northern California place where she came from, but another location in Connecticut. This girl, who viewed WWASPS positively, as it was the "best" family she had ever lived in, returned for a visit about 6 months after she was released [she was now looking toward college]. The visit went horribly, with Dace Goulding being his usual hurtful self, and she being escorted by two Level IV's, never allowed more than 10 feet from her escorts. When she asked about her best friend in Casa, Dace told her the girl had been returned home. Sadly, our "career WWASPIE" saw her best friend, and physically pushed past her "escorts" to hug the good friend who was indeed still incarcerated at Casa by the Sea. What purpose could be served by such hurtful action on the part of Dace Goulding, the director of Casa by the Sea? To lie in order to manipulate two girls who formed a bond? Sadism? Meaness? Evilness?
New parents, judge for yourself the character of the man set in complete, absolute, unregulated, unknown charge of your daughers. Is this really what you want to do?
