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Positive Impact??
Anonymous:
i too was a former student. last i heard a few weeks ago this program was shut down. its for the best the 8 months i spent there were very traumatic. in the end i walked out of the program and was homeless for 3 days on the beach with no money, while the staff talked with my parents back home telling them that i was mentally un-stable and needed to be committed if i went home otherwise i would be in jail or heavily using drugs in a week.
i was sent a plane ticket after that and went home and did not go crazy, or go to jail and was drug free and going to school.
personally i believe that this program is liable for neglect and many other things
we were served rotten milk, and nightly we would find cockroackes in our beds and bathrooms. constantly becmoing ill with diareah and fevers. a few months into the program i contracted parasites and was bleeding internally. when I requested to go to the doctor i was told by my therapist that i had better not be faking ilness to go and eat food in hermosillo, where the hospital was located. i was literally "shitting" blood excuse the vulgarity, and it took 2 days to arrange a trip to see the doctor
some nights staff would force students to sleep outside in the vida house compound on the ground. 3 times while i lived in that house we found coral snakes, which are very poisonus slithering through the house. these kids were put at risk.
Often times water would go out at the house, for many days at a time. you could not go to the bathroom because the toilets were filled to the brim with fecal matter. where it sat untill the water came back on.
this is the stone cold truth of the matter.
you can question me about it if you would like, and as much as i considered certain staff mambers to be friends i am glad that the program was shut down.
feel free to e-mail me about this if you would like to discuss this further. i hope that this company is sued h onestly because some of the things that happened in that program absolutely horrible
zippoz1@yahoo.com
Deborah:
Was it just beyond their rational ability to consider putting up a damn outhouse? Where did ya'll go in the interim?
Anonymous:
I went to Positive Impact for almost 17 months and left the program in December of 2003. I loved the program and would recomend it to all. The people who have written bad stuff regarding the program just didn't put in any work to get something positive about. It is obviuse none of you are living your truth, that is if you even worked to get one. I also heard it got shut down and am very saddened. I had plans to go back and vist last month, but apon hearing this news I decided to postpone. As far as cockroaches go, they are everywhere in mexico. If you go there for vacation you will find them. The staff or residents did not put them in the beds or bathrooms. It would be like moths or spiders in your house. They are just there. I am not going to deny the milk was sometimes rotten, but it was always trown away and replaced with good milk. During the times I was there, I never noticed anyone having to go days without using the bathroom. Sure the septic tank would sometimes fill up, but it would be drained as soon as it was noticed. It also happened very rarley. The water only went out once, for a few days because the town was fixing plumbing underneath their streets. It had nothing to do with the program and my entire stay we had bottled water to drink from. The students who slept outside of vida house did it because they did something they weren't supposed to do such as running away from the program, which if one is under the age of 18 is not allowed. It is true that every once in a while there were snakes found, but they were always taken care of in a profeesional manner. The people sleeping out side were watched very carefully by the staff. Positive Impacts first priority was "health, saftey, welfare. That came before anything else. It was such a help to me in my life, that there are times I wish I was still there. It sounds like I am someone who became hooked on the program and am not independent on my own, but rather it is different. I had a family away from home there. People who would underdtand me at all times and when I had rough periods they would help me get through them. I met friends who can never be replaced. My times at positive impact will never be forgotten. I am greatful for the program and greatful to all the people who helped me along the way. For those of you who are wondering what my truth is; I say to the top of my lungs and from my heart: I AM POWERFUL. Thanks to all for listening. My name is Brandon and I can be reached at Powerfulismytruth@hotmail.com
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-08-08 02:55:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I went to Positive Impact for almost 17 months and left the program in December of 2003. I loved the program and would recomend it to all. The people who have written bad stuff regarding the program just didn't put in any work to get something positive about. It is obviuse none of you are living your truth, that is if you even worked to get one. I also heard it got shut down and am very saddened. I had plans to go back and vist last month, but apon hearing this news I decided to postpone. As far as cockroaches go, they are everywhere in mexico. If you go there for vacation you will find them. The staff or residents did not put them in the beds or bathrooms. It would be like moths or spiders in your house. They are just there. I am not going to deny the milk was sometimes rotten, but it was always trown away and replaced with good milk. During the times I was there, I never noticed anyone having to go days without using the bathroom. Sure the septic tank would sometimes fill up, but it would be drained as soon as it was noticed. It also happened very rarley. The water only went out once, for a few days because the town was fixing plumbing underneath their streets. It had nothing to do with the program and my entire stay we had bottled water to drink from. The students who slept outside of vida house did it because they did something they weren't supposed to do such as running away from the program, which if one is under the age of 18 is not allowed. It is true that every once in a while there were snakes found, but they were always taken care of in a profeesional manner. The people sleeping out side were watched very carefully by the staff. Positive Impacts first priority was "health, saftey, welfare. That came before anything else. It was such a help to me in my life, that there are times I wish I was still there. It sounds like I am someone who became hooked on the program and am not independent on my own, but rather it is different. I had a family away from home there. People who would underdtand me at all times and when I had rough periods they would help me get through them. I met friends who can never be replaced. My times at positive impact will never be forgotten. I am greatful for the program and greatful to all the people who helped me along the way. For those of you who are wondering what my truth is; I say to the top of my lungs and from my heart: I AM POWERFUL. Thanks to all for listening. My name is Brandon and I can be reached at Powerfulismytruth@hotmail.com "
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Sounds like a typical programmie. It's never the program's fault, right? :roll: even when they make kids sleep outside, give kids rotten milk to drink, and do nothing about the cockroaches problem. Oh, of course none of this is the program's fault, hell no. And any ex-prisoner who dares criticise it is only doing that because they "didn't work their program". Riiiight. :roll:
Anonymous:
Have you even vistied positive Impact?
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