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URGENT ACTION NEEDED in Nevada and Utah - your help needed    
There are 2 licensing issues going on that need LOTS of people to write or call and state their opinion. Otherwise these 2 cases will just fall by the wayside as have so many others. You need to state that you support the license suspension and closure of the facilities, and urge licensing to always close down a facility pending any investigation of abuse or death. both of these facilities have licenses under review, don't let these cases just die off......

1. In Utah - Death of boy at Youth Care - Youth Care has contested the licensing suspension. Anyone who cares that they may not recieve any licensing sanction needs to contact DHS by writing or phoning Ken Stettler or Jan Knaphaus, and/or complain that they were not immediately closed down pending the investigation.

Contact info:
Ken Stettler - [email protected]
Licensing Specialist
DHS Office of Licensing
120 North 200 West #303
Salt Lake City UT 84103
(801) 538-8222

2. Closure of Sky View Academy - they have also contested their licensing suspension. Call or write to voice your support not only of the suspension, but also the closure of the facility during the investigation.

Meliss Faul
Bureau Chief at 775-684-4439 or email her at
[email protected]


Unless YOU help to generate a lot of public opionion and demand action, these 2 cases will join the many others where no action was taken. It's time to get busy and voice your opinion.

Last week, on Thursday Sept 27, 2007, an abuse incident involving a hazing of a student happened at Sky View Academy in Nevada. ANAZINGLY, this school has already been notified of a license suspension, and is BEING CLOSED DOWN pending the investigation of this incident.  The parents have all been notified of the incident. I contacted the state official today, confirmed the incident and the date it happened, and expressed my support of the closure of this facility. I also alerted her that Majestic Ranch in Utah, one of the facilities the kids are being referred to, is on several watch lists for abuse.

I also made some waves in Utah, and sent Ken Stettler and the Attorney General an email today stating my support of this closure in Nevada, pointing out how appropriate this action was, in comparison to the non-action in Utah in recent years.

If the state of Utah had acted this quickly and appropriately in the deaths of Michelle Sutton, Kristen Chase, Aaron Bacon, Katherine Lank, Ian August, and Elisa Santry, at Summit Quest, Challenger, Northstar Expeditions, Red Rock Ranch Academy, Skyline Journey, Island View Academy, and Outward Bound Wilderness, my son would never have been left to die at Youth Care in Utah. The parents of the kids still there are not even AWARE that Youth Care is under investigation for criminal activity, nor that their license is under review. They just think he got sick and died.  I have not been able to get in contact with any of them to give them the real story.

You can read the letter from Sky View to the parents here.
http://www.isaccorp.org/wwasps/skyviewsuspended.pdf

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