Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones
Ways to expand or get our Ideas outside this Forum
Anonymous:
This was cut and pasted from a news article about a specific non CEDU program - but it sounded so familier, it might as well have been Boulder Creek Academy
"There are allegations of instances documented where staff are accused of having sexual contact with the kids, and other allegations where the boys were supposedly left unsupervised and were able to have sex with each other.
In another case, CPS documented that a child tried to commit suicide by downing a bottle of Ibuprofen. Then only a couple of days later he was supposedly able to get his hands on more Ibuprofen and overdosed again.
There are also findings that Woodside Trails used something called empathy therapy, where a staff member forced a boy to re-enact some sequences of a sexual attack with the boy playing the victim.
The state comptroller's office tells me that CPS investigations of these allegations were often incomplete, while other allegations were never even investigated."
spirithelps:
I'm an author and an activist. Also, I just worked at a residential treatment center when I first hit this town. And, I just quit over sexual abuse and mind control techniques which I witnessed by the staff and reported. A few weeks later, all investigations are complete and the case is closed by: Sheriff's Office, Child Protective Services and the State Licensor.
I'm not gonna give up . . . As an author, I want to write about this. The whole story, from parents who aren't around, to kids that break rules and seem to have no hope, to institutions that are only concerned about their bottom line profit.
As a researcher, I've discovered there is very little information out there on the whole subject and particularly about the schools themselves -- not many news reports, it was quite difficult just to locate the proper licensing department to look for any complaints, and state laws are vague and new (I haven't delved into Federal law yet).
So, I'm looking for good solid, verifiable information and experiences. I've seen the posts about a teen movement to expose the whole enchilada. I think that is a wonderful idea.
And, if any parents are reading this thread, you should drastically reconsider sending any child to one of these places, I don't care how good it looks on the front. I'm also a parent and no stranger to problems, but never in my wildest dreams would I send my children to any residential treatment program, not for 1 month, 3 months or a year.
Please do post or email me at toni@spirithelps.com
Toni
Oppositional Defiance:
I sure as hell wish my mother had that view back when it mattered.
spirithelps:
spirithelps:
Oops, thought I was logging in, not posting. Why? What was wrong with your experience? I mean, I personally would have a problem just sending a son or daughter away for an extended stay to place or with peole that I knew nothing about.
I was always the neighborhood mom (I say was 'cause my kid's now 22) where all of the kids hung out. I wanted it that way so I could watch over 'em and be involved. One kid spent so much time with our family that he stayed for 3 days at our house without his mom ever calling or him calling her. I thought I'd just wait and see . . . So, it'd be very difficult for me to send my kid off to someone I don't even know.
I don't understand this attitude in parents. They must be involved at least 'til age 18. It is a lot of work, that's for sure, and it doesn't end at 5 pm. It's day and night, whatever it takes. It's setting morals and standards in the kids, but also walking their talk as role models.
I think in many, many instances a better situation would be where the parents and the child go to a neat vacation-type remote setting, but work on their problems together (without cell phones, X boxes, TV, you know what I mean). At least, my heart went out to many of the kids that I worked with. Their lives have been very sad.
Now here this, I'll say this up front. I'm not religious at all, I am very spiritual 'cause one night in the '80s with a 4-year-old child I said a prayer that I would do whatever it took to stop the haz waste burning near our home.
I had never been an activist, but I went to the first public meeting and I signed up to be a volunteer. The next week, out of several hundred volunteers, the new group fighting the haz waste called and asked me to be on their board of directors. I remembered my pray, thought, 'geez, I did say the prayer.' and accepted the work. We won. We also exposed a huge facility almost completed outside of Phx, illegal state bids, and the 3 top state enviro people were fired.
So, now, I've been fighting for lots of social 'causes, and whenever I get stuck--need an expert, attorney, whatever--I just pray and it arrives! No kidding! I've learned to keep praying for whatever I need, and it comes. Sometimes what I need is not really what I thought at all, however.
Anyway, along those lines, I think we all came here (offered ourselves up, so to speak) at this very crappy time in history to do a particular job, a job that only we can do. It's up to us to find out what our particular job is (listen to your heart for this, what makes you feel good and what makes you feel bad). Sometimes we have to build experiences first to be able to do our particular job. We have to make a strong foundation on which to build our dream. Our dream is always related to what we really, really, really love to do.
But this is all just background history about me. What I'm interested in doing right now is exposing a virtually unknown mega industry, where parents rely on state laws and licensing to protect their children, and where children are basically held hostage and exposed to illegal treatment by untrained staff without so much as a right to tell anyone about the offenses.
I know some from my own work experiences there, but I didn't stay for very long. I'm sure many of you have similar stories, worse ones or not so bad of ones. I need to hear from you what you would change in the system, and what was the need in your life that put you in one of these places in the first place.
And, most of all, I need honesty. I absolutely hate lies. There is never any good reason for a lie.
Anyone know anything about the national movement to take some action?
Toni
most illegal types of treatment of any group in our society.
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