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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / PROJECT
« on: December 01, 2001, 07:07:49 PM »
I am currently working on a creative project in screenplay form about life in programs like Straight or KIDS of Bergen County.  If you have any ideas or want to be involved in getting our story to the mainstream media, please contact me at [email protected].  I have already written a book called, "The Program" and my agent is still attempting to have it published.  If you would like to contact her to receive a copy or show your support for this story's release, please notify:

Susan Ginsburg
c/o Writers House
21 W. 28th Street
New York, NY 10010
212. 685. 2400
Ask for  information on "The Program" by Christian Young

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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Sleepless in Canada
« on: December 01, 2001, 06:46:10 PM »
Re: Sleepless in Canada
Dear Sleepless,


I'm sorry to hear you're still agonizing over the choices you made.  Something I've learned is that no matter what you do, you still would've done it.  As idiotic as that may sound, it's fact.  I used to have nightmares about the program I was placed in for years, afterwards.  I don't have them anymore.  Everyone has a different stage or place where they "let it go", but they're the only ones who know when or why that happens.  I let go of the trauma because it was killing me.  And it's hard to be productive when you're dead.  So I said, to hell with it---me or this Program.  Now, I can be productive.  Writing books, working on a screenplay, assisting so many other people who are still hurting bad.  I don't even feel them or what they did to us, anymore.  Not angry.  Just focused.  It's tedious as hell if you're in a rush to see justice.  But one of the biggest reasons I found these websites was because I wasn't in a rush and I had let my experiences with these people rest.  Not buried, just at rest, so I could get some damn peace.  Whether you believe me or not, it does happen.  And then, you can nail the SOB's.  (Smile)


Keep strong,


Christian


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Live at Last...
« on: December 01, 2001, 08:52:12 PM »
PARADOXES
Jason,


You have no idea how far reaching the Straight program was back then.  I was sixteen in 1986 and never had the "pleasure" of being in Straight Inc., but I think perhaps my group got the worse deal (smile).  You see, Dr. Miller Newton had just left Straight Inc and started his own baby in Hackensack, NJ called the KIDS of Begren County program with a sister program in El Paso, TX.  We were hearing stories about the hell you guys were getting and the legal stuff and being told how lucky we were.  By the way, I was never the "rebellious" type.  But I saw, tackled and baby-sat enough kids in an intake room to know what 18 days in there can do to you.  


I escaped three times, got it right just before my eighteenth birthday and as an adult, wrote a kick ass book about it.  My agent in NYC loved it, but surprise, surprise most of the publishers loved it too, but were too damn intimidated by the content to touch it.  That was three years ago.  I still think of perhaps writing a screenplay from it.  Would love to hear more about your experiences.  


And oh, Jason.  I still dream about them, too.  Wake up, crying and sweating my ass off.  I was the first black girl they'd ever had in the Program and with a strict, abusive religious family and no drug/alcohol history.  Dr. Newton and his staff decided I was anorexic.  Incredible.


Christian


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Live at Last...
« on: November 01, 2001, 12:49:33 PM »
PARADOXES
Jason,


You have no idea how far reaching the Straight program was back then.  I was sixteen in 1986 and never had the "pleasure" of being in Straight Inc., but I think perhaps my group got the worse deal (smile).  You see, Dr. Miller Newton had just left Straight Inc and started his own baby in Hackensack, NJ called the KIDS of Begren County program with a sister program in El Paso, TX.  We were hearing stories about the hell you guys were getting and the legal stuff and being told how lucky we were.  By the way, I was never the "rebellious" type.  But I saw, tackled and baby-sat enough kids in an intake room to know what 18 days in there can do to you.  


I escaped three times, got it right just before my eighteenth birthday and as an adult, wrote a kick ass book about it.  My agent in NYC loved it, but surprise, surprise most of the publishers loved it too, but were too damn intimidated by the content to touch it.  That was three years ago.  I still think of perhaps writing a screenplay from it.  Would love to hear more about your experiences.  


And oh, Jason.  I still dream about them, too.  Wake up, crying and sweating my ass off.  I was the first black girl they'd ever had in the Program and with a strict, abusive religious family and no drug/alcohol history.  Dr. Newton and his staff decided I was anorexic.  Incredible.


Christian


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