Dave I'm connecting you to being a part of it, because you worked there and knew that this was going on. You enforced the same rules as everyone else in AARC. Countless kids who signed themselves out? Were they under the age of 16? Because I was told that I couldn't sign out under the age of 16 and that I'd be restrained if I tried to, and I saw that happen to others. I went to host homes in child locked doors and child locked windows, beds pushed in front of doors so that we couldn't escape, and our shoes hidden. I had oldcomers surround me so that I couldn't move. Calgary social services informed me that AARC did not have that right. I sobbed to you about wanting out, and I begged you to help me (while staring at your Salvidor Dali poster), and you enforced the rule that I couldn't leave. Legally, you should have helped escort me out. That was a denial of my civil rights which lead me to loosing one year of freedom during my youth which I desperately want back.
I know that you believe that you had the legal right to do this and that you were only helping. I recall you trying to have good relationships with each of the kids. Unfortunately you didn't have the right to keep me and you didn't help. You didn't listen to what I was telling you because you believed that we were all "druggies" and "full of BS". If you hadn't been taught that way of thinking then you most likely would have been able to see me with clarity and try to help me away from my family to a stable place. I certainly don't blame you specifically for this, just like I don't blame the other peers who I maintained friendships with for some time. But I do hold you just as accountable as all of the rest for not doing anything about it.
You were not with AARC for long while I was there. I have only a little recollection of you which includes that talk with you in your office, one talk with you in the kitchen, breifly some raps and what you wore, chickens, the job you went on to when you left, your girlfriend (wife?) and your mom. I remember Andrew and Mr. G restraining A*r*l and I think that you may have still worked there at the time.
My sibling only has three memories of the entire time in AARC and one is a sibling rap with you, and two of the rules. No Open Meeting, no Talks, she doesn't remember any of it at all.