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The Melting Pot / Interesting Cafety Article
« on: August 23, 2010, 07:34:30 AM »
http://http://www.cafety.org/resources/804-redefining-residential-youth-guided-treatment

I decided to post this link here and discuss it here in order to have some basic moderation of the discussion.

I find the items of interest. I'm not a huge fan of fixing programs. However, if I was forced to choose between leaving them alone or enacting the changes suggested by youthmove I'd go with the youthmove/cafety changes. Not sure how popular the reforms would be considering the mania for power and control that infects programs like a sick cancer, but it possibly could do a great deal to address some of the routine issues of abuse and neglect at the hands of programs.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Serious Help needed..
« on: August 19, 2010, 05:31:45 AM »
I need some people who are genuinely serious about participating in a small project to assist someone who soon will be in a program. I know most everyone here on fornits, there are those who should PM me, I mean seriously, you know who you are.

There are the local idiots who shouldn't bother.


If you want to help out with some letters, phone calls, faxes, and other small tasks designed to increasingly put pressure on a program to convince them of the errors of their ways you should PM me. I'm only going to let people I know and trust in on this.

Help is needed.. so please.. get off the pot and take a shit for a change and be about more than a talking head on a forum.

PM me if you are interested.

This might end up being a multi-group effort, so if you can't work with other orgs due to ideological issues then please don't bother. If you want to help a kid in a program and find this calling to be more important than text and other bullshit then drop me a line.

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CEDU / Brown Schools and derivatives / clones / Echo Springs Staff
« on: August 16, 2010, 07:11:26 PM »
Anyone know of a guy named Jack Blake?

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Strikes Close to Home..
« on: August 13, 2010, 03:29:00 AM »
Right.. I'm currently dealing with a problem that involves someone I know through a very close friend. Here is the situation:

1) 12 year old boy.. slightly disabled due to being legally deaf.
2) Orphaned.
3) His father and mother were both very abusive to him for the last several years.
4) The parents we both recently killed in a car wreck that claimed the life of the maternal grandmother and his sister.
5) His one aunt and one uncle both have families and are very busy with their own lives.

Right now he's living with the uncle. He is acting out almost daily in a variety of manners. The uncle is thinking of sending him to a TBS. My friend contacted me and I've spoken with the Uncle on skype, no easy process given the shitty connection I have with the states, and the Uncle is willing to entertain other options. No matter how hard I pushed I was unable to convince the uncle that the kid is going through a phase in which he's angry and feeling abandoned and that with time and patience the kid will move on and learn to cope with his anger on his own.

The uncle is convinced the kid is going to burn down the house, due to a threatening letter the kid wrote.

The aunt lives across the country in a very small apartment with no real way to take the kid in as she just doesn't have any room for him.

What suggestions do you all have? If I had a place in the US and a steady job I'd consider taking the kid in myself, but being a semi-nomadic vagrant ESL teacher doesn't lend itself to stability.

Any ideas?

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Open Free for All / Time.com
« on: July 21, 2010, 07:37:00 AM »
http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... -1,00.html

Article worth reading.

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CALO - Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks / How many HLAers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
« on: July 07, 2010, 10:13:10 AM »
Well lets see now...we have three of the top echelon from West Ridge (Ken Huey, Landon Kirk, Caleb Cottle)...and now three of the top echelon from HLA (Christy Maher (Jones), Nicole Fuglsang, and Laura Sumpter)...wonder who is next on their recruiting list...


Prior to joining CALO, Laura was a therapist at Hidden Lake Academy, a well-respected therapeutic boarding school in Georgia. It was there that she met her husband, Walter. While at Hidden Lake, Laura facilitated individual, group and family therapy, and also participated in parent workshops and treatment team staffings. During her last six months at Hidden Lake, Laura was on-call on a rotating basis in order to manage crisis situations as they arose.

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Open Free for All / Masters of Social Work
« on: July 07, 2010, 10:03:24 AM »
Ok... My long term plans call for me getting an MSW. The problem I'm having is finding a BSW program that is both online and affordable. The tuition rates for the one I found with the University of Texas is damn near ruinous. As I can't afford the Bachelor's of Social Work, I'm pondering trying my hand at two other possible degrees.

Now, before yall ask why I have to get another damn degree let me explain. I have to get another degree as my graduating GPA with my original degree is piss weak and no reputable program would touch me with a ten foot pole. Now whether I have to do a full degree or just enough coursework to prove I'm not an idiot is up to debate. I'm still looking into that, but for now I'd like to know what area I should look into.

So.. My question, for those of you who actually know, not those of your who are fucking morons who like to talk shit about shit they don't know but read out of a reader's digest.. My question is will a degree in Criminal Justice or Sociology and a couple decent years of experience satisfy the requirements needed to get into a decent MSW program?

I'm looking at CJ as the community corrections field has always interested me. Diverting people out of the system is something I wouldn't mind doing.  There is absolutely no way I'd ever want to work in a prison. My best friend works in one and the stories he's told me are enough to turn a black man into a lilly white cracker boy. There are other avenues though and I'm looking at them carefully.

 Sociology just seems like a lameass degree, but if gets me into an MSW program I'm for it.

So will either of them satisfy the requirements for an MSW programme?

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Open Free for All / My Hat is off to the Troll Programs bloke..
« on: June 20, 2010, 01:11:37 AM »
You quite possibly nearly pulled it off. However, the WhoIs registrant information for elanalum.com comes up with:

Quote
Ken Zaretzky
P.O. Box 1211
Wheeling, Illinois 60090
United States

Who Robert Hess is I can only make some educated guesses, but I highly doubt he is an Elan Alumni. Nice try, not even that funny, and better luck next time.

 :fuckoff:

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Web forum hosting / Cunning Linguist
« on: June 16, 2010, 01:37:11 AM »
I think it has come time that we drop the moderation of the Elan forum on the understanding that they troll and bugger each other all they want within it. The hope that someone sane and rational rising up has long since been cast by the wayside. Should a time come where there is someone who wants to speak out as a rational voice of Elan we can always set them up with a moderated forum, to keep out the morons, in the CAN section.

I understand the point of this moderation was to help the kiddies play fair or some shit? Obviously that has failed as they've merely started going at it all over the forum.

Ship the Elannies back to Mexico/The Elan forum and allow  them to police themselves in their own colourful way.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / DRA Youtube Video
« on: June 09, 2010, 12:30:04 AM »
assbanditry is assbanditry.

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Open Free for All / I'd Pay soo much money to see this happen to a program...
« on: May 20, 2010, 08:22:48 AM »
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... 1625.story

srsly.. I would.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Prone Restraints are Safe!
« on: May 18, 2010, 12:43:35 AM »
http://http://www.thetruthaboutpronerestraint.com/prone_restraint.php

At least this website claims they are. I'm gonna go ahead and scoff and chortle a bit.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Hey Sekto, if you wanna get yo' gripe on..
« on: May 16, 2010, 09:16:31 AM »
http://http://www.daytop.cn/iso_details.asp?levelid=23.03&ID=1534

If you want to hit the Red Cross with a few email them about what absolute toolbags they are in bed with and need something In Chinese lemme know. I'll get one of the girls at work to translate something up so long as you don't get too wordy.

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The Troubled Teen Industry / CALO gets Shat on, Again..
« on: May 16, 2010, 08:49:46 AM »
Someone is doing their best to make my day go well, I thank you sir, I really do.

:)
http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=30522

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The Troubled Teen Industry / Infiltrating AA
« on: May 15, 2010, 12:59:02 AM »
I've decided I have a new life goal, infiltrating an AA meeting and getting all the Boozers and loosers on film so I can make a mockumentary out of it. Any tips and suggestions on how to sound and look like a right proper AA Boozer/Looser?

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