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I'm surprised that this has gotten the attention of so many of you. I would've made a new thread had I known.
I personally know quite a few more alumni that are dead or in jail - so although Kellen's death is tragic, it's not very shocking to me.

This is from late 2006, a single-car wreck that killed an alumni and injured another, two other people were killed and another injured. I had been in PV with and was friends with both alumni. The vehicle was a Chevy Tahoe:

Congrats psy! I'm glad the court has done the right thing, it must put your mind at ease knowing you won't have to pay the $30,000 bill from fighting Benchmark's SLAPP. Hopefully these rulings should discourage other programs from trying such dirty tricks. Wonder how Benchmark will take this loss of $187,417.74 to you/your lawyers PLUS their own lawyers fees... I'll keep my eyes open for a "closing due to financial situation" notice from them.

That and much more in the below collection of PV-related facebook photos:
Link to Photo Album

I switched to Peninsula Hospital after spending 10 months in Peninsula Village.

I wasn't "accepting treatment" very well at PV, and everyone thought I'd have to spend even more time in other facilities until I'd be ready to go home. Must have seemed odd to them then, that once I left PV and entered PH everything went great for me and I was an angel of a patient for the few weeks I stayed there. Of course this didn't surprise me one bit, as I had already realized that my negative behaviors weren't being treated by PV but rather caused by them.

My recollection of PH may be skewed because my stay had followed PV, but I don't remember it being too bad. In fact, comparatively, I almost enjoyed being there.

The staff-encouraged verbal attacks during groups were also used at PV with the same "May I confront someone?" phrase you mentioned. This didn't happen at PH while I was there though.

Using the restroom was much easier at PH than PV. At PH you can just put your hand outside your room door and within a minute a staff will walk you to the bathroom. At PV there are scheduled bathroom breaks a few times per day where you tell staff whether you need to go "up" or "down" (standing or sitting) and you get a set number of seconds in the restroom. If you go over that time you'll get a consequence. To use the restroom off schedule you raise your hand from your bedbox and wait for a staff you call on you. It can take a while for someone to call on you, and if you let on that you're going to ask about the restroom they may never call on you. If you need to use the bathroom at night in the cabins, all the patients have to wake up and wait for you.

At PV all incoming and outgoing mail is screened by staff. If a letter you write is sloppy or says something controversial, they will make you rewrite it. You get one phone call with your parents and PV family therapist per week but it's family therapy, not a casual conversation. If you say something the therapist doesn't approve of, they will hang the phone up.

I've seen Bob Pegler three times after leaving PV. He's currently the Program Director, but also leads a family support group in Raleigh every other month. This is where I have seen him as I have been outside protesting these meetings. The most recent one was just yesterday.

Why does progress seem to be slowing down? I see we have the "Testimonials" and "What is the Troubled Teen Industry?" pages up, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

Here's some things that I think need to be changed/added:
-The text font and size should be switched to something easier to read. Especially true for the long page of testimonials.
-New logo. It needs capitol letters so readers quickly recognize what it says, and look slightly closer to what PV actually uses.
-More color and design! PV uses a repeating "super light tree bark" image as their background (link) maybe we could do something similar.
-Content.... not too much right now. Until more is added, get rid of the unnecessary blank pages so it seems like the site is fuller. Not sure if there would ever be a need for an "About Us" page anyway.

Lets get the ball rolling again here. I've been holding out on releasing my copy of the PV parent handbook, in hopes it can debut on pvexposed. I'm also planning for a protest in March at the Knoxville marathon and it'd be nice to have this site ready  to direct people to it.

Act, I've got some pictures to send you for your thoughts on what to do with them.  They will piss PV but we might want to photoshop a few individuals out.  You'll see when I send them.  Let me know what you're thoughts are on using them and we''l send them on to Psy.

Sure, go ahead and send them over. I've got some nice editing software so we can blur certain people/things out if necessary.

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