Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Who Am I Discovery/Whitmore
EMERCENCY ABOUT CHERYL
Joyce Harris:
ANON:
You may have to "register" to send a Private Message. But you can register under an ANON NAME...like "Friend of a Student" or something like that. You do not have to give your real name. OK?
Thanks,
Joyce
Anonymous:
Joyce I would love to speak with you but im afraid i dont have much else to say. Their parents are well aware and are actually sticking up for the school because when they visited during a parents weekend they found great results and the boy they used to have before the drama. I havent talked to the person since they went in and have been waiting for almost a year now. I wasnt exactly sure how to contact them or if i even could so i've been patiently waiting, and its a long time to wait for me! The person moved away previous to coming back and eventually going in and it was hard during that time for onlya few short months that i could not contact them. They are a dear friend of mine and i am deeply worried. I wrote a letter to the staff of the school, not expecting any great results asking them about the allegations and about how they can still be operating when they dont have a license and how they can claim on their website its a life enhancement school but they said they are out of the teen-help business? These owners seem to need help themselves. If you are trying to get teenagers out of a depressing period in their life they need both group and private therapy sessions, its just not possible to help them fully until you go over each thing in their life. Not only that but how can sending your child away seem ok to you, if you cant just check up at any given time my mother would never consider sending me away because she would of course want to make sure the facility is fully safe at ALL times. When i wrote the staff the letter, were you aware their building codes were out dated and they needed to update quite a few things, an unsafe building housing kids! well of course what are they going to do except use the kids to change the codes! They had the students build a brand new set of stairs something i suppose they said was "life enhancing" or some bs, to me thats child labor! This place the more i hear about it the more upsets me that someone i care so much about may be hurt. I know this person WELL better than any of their friends or parents, the only way he would not cry for help is if someone if threatening him or they are showing him no one cares, otherwise his voice is ALWAYS loud and clear... Ill go ahead and sign up shortly, i just hope more people read my response and truly think about what this school is doing
Joyce Harris:
Miss ANON,
Of course your worries are valid.
We are adult parents, and we were "conned" and believed every thing IN THE BEGINNING too--and of course we did not know that the building was not UP TO CODE. We just made the assumption that it WAS. We did check to be certain that the therapist Tim Lowe was licensed through the State of Utah--but he resigned two weeks after we enrolled our daughter. We did not KNOW then that the Whitmore was only licensed as a BED AND BREAKFAST---AGAIN, we assumed the Sudweeks had the valid licensing required.
As parents, WE ALL made very supid "assumptions" and our children suffered terribly. Whitmore was not FULLY ACCREDITED, and there were no certified teachers--my daughter had no teachers, and fellow students graded a couple of book reports she did...and the only other "SCHOOL WORK" she did was some UNGRADED math worksheets. The so-called GROUP THERAPY was led by Cheryl Sudweeks--who does not even have a college degree, much less a degree in psychology. And my little girl was humiliated, and tormented in these group sessions by this woman!
Yes--these kids are worked, and worked hard by the Sudweeks. They may call it LIFE SKILLS, but you called it correctly--it is CHILD LABOR!
Did you get a response to your letter to the Sudweeks?
The Sudweeks monitor all incoming communications--so it is up to THEM if your friend is allowed contact with you or not. We did not KNOW that all our communications with our daughter was monitored. We NEVER agreed to that, either.
And it goes without saying that we never agreed to any type of phyical, emotional, mental, or sexual abuse...but it went on.
Luckily our daughter was only there 2 months. T
Do you think your friend would like to be in contact with you? If so there are ways to gain communication with him.
Joyce
Anonymous:
Oh boy. If you wrote a letter to the staff, then your boyfriend is probably mad. Either Cheryl got mad at him big time. Or, they had a big group on him, and your name is mud, and he will probably never speak to you again! Cheryl will convince him you are evil, causing trouble in his new "family," and that he should avoid you forever. Not a good move, and his parents will tell him to stay far away from you too.
Antigen:
Yeah, that's probably so. But, in the end, he'll eventually come around at least to the fact that he wants out. And he probably knows by now that you haven't abandoned him like they'd like to think. When he gets out, just don't take any of his weird responses personally. I get the sense that you already know better, so I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.
It'll pay off. You're a good friend. Sure wish I had had one like you way back when.
Patience.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
--Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist
--- End quote ---
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version