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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: NIGEL on November 03, 2011, 03:48:28 PM

Title: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: NIGEL on November 03, 2011, 03:48:28 PM
I recently talked to someone who is thinking about sending their son to the Arivaca Boys Ranch.  I told her I would help her do some research on the place.  Does anyone have any info on it?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: none-ya on November 03, 2011, 09:59:56 PM
Anything ending in "boys ranch" can't be good.
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: cmack on November 04, 2011, 04:16:23 AM
From http://www.heal-online.org (http://www.heal-online.org)

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Arivaca Boys Ranch--Located in Arivaca, AZ (on Mexican Border).  It looks to be a basic slave/labor camp.  These ranchers get free labor that they can exploit and abuse while charging families big money.  The website plays into the scapegoating of children by taking all responsibility off the parents or family dynamic and blaming the child.  This is a sign of an abusive environment.  Children, teenagers, and the adults in their lives all contribute to the overall social environment that can create imbalance, lack of good communication, and a complete breakdown of the family dynamic.  It is up to everyone to work together to resolve family issues.  Any program that sets parents and children against each other and takes the "side" of the parent without having properly assessed the needs of the family, including the child in question, is likely fraudulent and abusive.  We would recommend against placing any child at such a facility as Arivaca Boys Ranch.  Please   contact us if you need to expose abuse or violations at this facility.  For staff and background info,    click here.

http://www.heal-online.org/childtortureusa.htm#arivaca (http://www.heal-online.org/childtortureusa.htm#arivaca)
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: cmack on November 04, 2011, 04:28:55 AM
From the Arivaca website: http://arivacaboysranch.com/index.php (http://arivacaboysranch.com/index.php)

http://arivacaboysranch.com/troubled-te ... -signs.php (http://arivacaboysranch.com/troubled-teen-warning-signs.php)

Message to parents:

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What Arivaca Boys Ranch offers, most parents cannot provide...

Most of all, the staff at Arivaca can teach you how to detach from the guilt associated with this traumatic experience...

http://arivacaboysranch.com/troubled-teen-transport.php (http://arivacaboysranch.com/troubled-teen-transport.php)

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Once the decision to enroll your son into a program is made, the method to get him there becomes and important issue...
 
Transport Services. For the young man that simply will not come, you can hire the services of a transport company. These professionals are bonded and insured and know how to get your son to the program with little incident. They generally help the young man understand what is happening and work to lessen the anxiety. Costs run from $1500 to $3500 for transport. We are happy to provide some referrals.

Once a young man arrives at the Ranch, several things happen to make it easier for him.

    * First, we are happy, upbeat, and enthusiastic about his attendance and participation in our Ranch.
    * Secondly, we tour the ranch and get him settled in.
    * Thirdly, we let him talk to the other boys who have all gone through the similar experience and will tell him that the Ranch is great and that he will actually like it.

It is amazing how the other boys reach out to a new placement. Some of the more difficult boys take a little more time to adjust and accept their enrollment into the program. This is not a problem, but is part of the therapeutic process that helps us direct him to change.
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Ursus on November 04, 2011, 05:46:40 PM
Their primary selling point appears to be that youth get to tame and train a wild horse from start to finish. Arivaca Boys Ranch also claims to adhere to Arbinger Principles, although usage of involuntary transport to the ranch would appear to be in serious conflict with that. There are, moreover, other such inconsistencies, which may suggest a degree of unreliability in the info presented via their marketing efforts.

Here's their homepage:

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Therapeutic Boarding School & Boys Ranch in Arizona (http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/)

The Arivaca Boys Ranch serves 40-50 boys, age 14 to 18, on a 23,000 acre, 140-year-old ranch. The ranch is specifically designed to therapeutically help teenage boys learn how to make better decisions and become more mature in their thinking, while learning life skills right along with "book learning" in our accredited on-campus school.

Arivaca Boys Ranch uses three powerful tools to help teen boys get on a right path in life. First, a unique form of equine therapy, commonly used to help teens who are struggling, but we take it one step further, we teach the boys to become "horse whisperers." Known as the "Arivaca Way," our therapeutic model teaches boys to understand how their behavior or mood affects their horse and others around them, that helps them be more aware and responsible for their actions. Secondly, we use Arbinger Principles to help provide a foundation for moving behavior from anger to positive motivational action. The principles were developed by the Arbinger Institute, which is a worldwide leader in training on anger management. And third, we use the working ranch setting for training, responsibility and positive peer influence as a means of helping the teen grow in maturity.

If your son is struggling, consider Arivaca Boys Ranch for helping him find his way back to right tinking and to a renewed relationship with you. We have a full academic program, 24/7 care, as well as our unique and effective 3-tiered therapy. The Arivaca ranch is at a higher elevation, with a climate similar to inland San Diego.


© Copyright 2011, Arivaca Boys Ranch, a therapeutic ranch for boys, located in Arizona, but boys come from around the country. Phone: 877­-886-9766
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Post by: cum guzzler on November 04, 2011, 11:01:23 PM
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Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Che Gookin on November 05, 2011, 02:10:00 AM
That horse training bit could be interesting, not all that sure about the rest of it though. I mean just who are they breaking.. the kids or the horses?
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Oscar on November 05, 2011, 03:40:18 AM
Both HEAL-online and Antiwwasp share the information that a former staff member from Casa by the Sea is working at the facility. As result we have recreated a datasheet on Fornits wiki (http://http://wiki.fornits.com/index.php?title=The_Arivaca_Boys_Ranch)
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Froderik on November 05, 2011, 10:51:50 AM
Quote from: "none-ya"
Anything ending in "boys ranch" can't be good.

 :rofl:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :notworthy:  :roflmao:  :twofinger:  :rofl:  :rofl:  :rocker:  :jamin:
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Ursus on November 08, 2011, 11:47:09 AM
From Strugglingteens.com:

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New Perspectives
May 3, 2010, 05:59


ARIVACA BOYS RANCH (http://http://www.strugglingteens.com/artman/publish/printer_ArivacaBoysRanchNP_100503.shtml)

Arivaca, Arizona
Ron Searle
Managing Partner
877-886-9766
http://www.arivicaboysranch.com (http://www.arivicaboysranch.com)

Originally founded in the 1870's, Arivaca Boys Ranch is a therapeutic boarding school and teen boy's ranch, situated in southern Arizona on 23,000 acres. This working ranch works with young men ages 13-17 years old who are struggling with academic issues and ADD/ADHD, ODD and conduct disorders, anger management, drug and alcohol abuse, negative peer relationships, depression and negative behaviors that may include lying, stealing and sneaking out of the house.

Managing partner at Arivaca Boys Ranch is Ron Searle who holds a masters degree in business and has worked over 26 years in youth education as an instructor and principal at private schools. D. Hyrum Wright is the Clinical Director who holds an EDS and a master's degree from Brigham Young. He is currently the director of the ASU Institute of Religion. Mike and Margaret Stroud are the ranch directors and live on the ranch while giving the boys a sense of stability and are the acting "mom and dad" at the ranch.

Arivica offers an accredited high school curriculum through Sequoia Choice Distance Learning, which is accredited by the Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA) and the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement (NCA CASI). Academics include computer lab work, hands on lab work and classroom instruction in general academic subjects in addition to vocational training in welding, construction and agriculture.

In addition to individual, group and family therapies, the young men at Arivaca participate in equine therapy systematically doled out through their "five levels of therapy". Through this level system the boys learn the basics of caring and riding horses by staff trainers and wranglers to training their own 2-3 year old horse. At level five the boys are then eligible to participate in activities that include roundups, horse shows and community and ranch events. Twice yearly cattle drives are a highlight of the program, working on horseback with lariats, boys assist in the round up and branding of 300 young steers.

[This information came from the Arivaca Boys Ranch website.]


© Copyright 2012 by Woodbury Reports, Inc.
Title: Arivaca Boys Ranch - Facebook group
Post by: Ursus on November 08, 2011, 11:53:37 AM
Program Facebook group:
Arivaca Boys Ranch (http://http://www.facebook.com/ArivacaBoysRanch) - "Building Men of Integrity"[/list]
From their (facebook) Info (http://http://www.facebook.com/ArivacaBoysRanch?sk=info) page:


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Title: Arivaca Boys Ranch - Ranch Living
Post by: Ursus on November 08, 2011, 12:16:03 PM
From the program's webpage titled "Ranch Living," emphasis as per original:

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Ranch Living at Arivaca Boys Ranch and Home (http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/ranch-living.php)

Historic and Serene Ranch Setting

Historic 23,000 Acre Western Ranch Founded in 1878

Located in the rolling hills of Southern Arizona, Arivaca Teen Boys Ranch and Academy is a unique and historic ranch founded in 1878.

The campus is rich in history and stories. Old adobe barns and houses, built in 1890, are still used on the ranch. This creates a reverent and healing feeling on the ranch that is hard to explain. The Old West is still alive on the Arivaca Boys Ranch -- it's an experience few will ever get a chance to discover.

Cattle and horses graze on the 23,000 acre property, a fitting part of the working ranch. At night it is not uncommon to hear the coyotes howling. Deer, javelina, quail, and even an occasional cougar are residents of our boys ranch.

Round-ups are held twice a year as nearly 300 young steers are branded. The night air is full of the sound of bawling babies (calves) separated from their mothers for the first time. Round-up's are done the old-fashioned way, with horses and lariats.

The hills are combed on horseback looking for cows and their babies for a week before the day of branding. Visitors come from near and far (even from overseas) to witness the Arivaca Roundup. Tortillas and beans are cooked up and served, and everyone feels like it is a fiesta . . . it is!

The boys ranch is at 3800 feet elevation. Moderate winters and summers, similar to the climate of inland San Diego, create the perfect year-round climate for "horse play." Arivaca gets about 17 inches of rain a year. At times of the year, the rolling hills are green with high grass. Evenings and mornings are always cool and pleasant.

This is a perfect environment for working with teen boys and horses in therapy - a great way to teach responsibility and true manliness.
 
The Western Ranch Community

The community of Arivaca is located less than an hours drive southwest of the Tucson International Airport. Green Valley is 30 minutes away. The Phoenix airport is approximately 3 hours away.

We invite you to visit the teen boys ranch. Once you feel the serenity and peace of the Arivaca Boys Ranch, you will want to come back again and again.

By the way we have never had an issue with illegal immigrants in our area due to a strong local force of border patrol agents.


© Copyright 2011, Arivaca Boys Ranch, a therapeutic ranch for boys, located in Arizona, but boys come from around the country. Phone: 877­-886-9766
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Ursus on November 08, 2011, 12:33:02 PM
I had mentioned earlier that all is not as it seems with this program. There's something a bit dodgey with how they market themselves. Here is one such example:

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A naive parent might easily presume, from the above, that Arivaca Boys Ranch is a stable program which has been around a long time, and has probably long ago worked out all those potentially dangerous kinks and bugs in their methodology.

Not so.

The ranch may have been around that whole time, but not this program. The program investors didn't even purchase the property 'till just a few years ago.
Title: Boys ranch planning to rein in troubled teens
Post by: Ursus on November 08, 2011, 12:43:11 PM
Here's some reportage from back in May of 2007, shortly after the ranch was purchased, and before Arivaca Boys Ranch opened for binnis:

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The Arizona Republic
Boys ranch planning to rein in troubled teens (http://http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/0525gr-horseranch0525-ON.html)

Kim Goetz
Special for The Republic

May. 25, 2007 09:42 AM


A vision of bringing horses and troubled teens together has led Ron Searle of Gilbert to the purchase of one of the oldest cattle ranches in Arizona.

Searle and five partners from the Southeast Valley on March 23 acquired Arivaca Ranch, a 575-acre spread southwest of Tucson. They said they plan to open Arivaca Boys Ranch in October.

The ranch, along with an additional 23,000 acres that will be leased from the government, will allow the program to run 350 head of cattle, 200 head of Arabian horses and house facilities set up for 50 boys who will immerse themselves in chores, school, counseling and horses.

The boys ranch plans to start with five boys and add five more every seven weeks.

Three years in the making, Searle said he has put a program in place that will use natural horsemanship as the tool to help troubled boys work on their issues.

"We want to teach the boys to be horse whisperers, and in that process we're hoping that they learn about themselves and communication with their parents," said Searle, the managing general partner. "The idea is to use the horse as a mirror for the boys to become responsible and basically see themselves."

Boys 14-18 will train their own horse over a 10-month stay at the ranch. They will progress through five levels of natural horsemanship starting with horse psychology and groundwork and ending with riding their once green horse.

The program will breed 50 mares each year to provide the horses necessary for the next year. Searle says he has talked to people who are interested in donating breeding services.

With 26 years of experience in youth education and business, the current teacher for the LDS Institute of Religion on Arizona State University's Tempe campus said he has watched kids over the years go into all kinds of programs.

"Our therapy is using horses," said Searle, who has 15 years of experience with the animals and has seen first hand how they can reflect the issues of the person that is working with them. "It's not the only way to do it. It's just a way to do it, and I think it's an effective way and it can be a real powerful tool."

Searle said there are other horse therapy programs that teach kids how to be more responsible by caring for a horse, but he is unaware of any other program that gives a boy the opportunity to train a horse from start to finish using natural horsemanship.

"We're looking for the young man who their parents just don't know what to do," Searle said. "He's lying, he's stealing, he's out of control and their frustrated."

Application and enrollment for the program will take place at the ranch's office in Mesa. Once the boys arrive at the ranch, counselors, horse trainers, wranglers and a ranch director will guide them.

Searle said a non-profit foundation will form that will help supply scholarship money to youths who can't afford the program.

The program costs $3,000 per month.

"It's an expensive program, and we don't want it to be a rich kids camp," he said.

The boys coming to his ranch most likely will be from a city, hate horses and not want to be there, Searle said.

"We're really ready to deal with that those first couple months," he said. "By the end of the sixth or seventh month when he's actually galloping a horse across the field, when he's chasing cattle, when he's doing stuff he never thought he was ever going to do, he's a different kid then."

Information: http://www.arivacaboysranch.com (http://www.arivacaboysranch.com)


Copyright © 2009, azcentral.com.
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Ursus on November 08, 2011, 01:28:45 PM
Here's another problematic statement. This from the same page on the Arivaca Boys Ranch website, copied above (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=38099&p=407875#p407874), color emphasis added:

The Western Ranch Community

The community of Arivaca is located less than an hours drive southwest of the Tucson International Airport. Green Valley is 30 minutes away. The Phoenix airport is approximately 3 hours away.

We invite you to visit the teen boys ranch. Once you feel the serenity and peace of the Arivaca Boys Ranch, you will want to come back again and again.

By the way we have never had an issue with illegal immigrants in our area due to a strong local force of border patrol agents.
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Hmmm. Something 'bout that last bald assertion tickled my suspicions. Maybe I'm wrong, but I tend to think that it's not the illegal immigrants themselves who are a potential danger to kids at Arivaca Boys Ranch (as the statement seemed to imply). Most of those folk are trying real hard to be invisible.

Well... don't know if you followed the news earlier this year 'bout the associated murder trial, but... back in 2009, some vigilante border patrol splinter group (with ties to Aryan Nation) savagely assassinated two members of a local family, one of them a 9-year-old girl, shot twice point blank in her face while she pleaded for her life. That happened right in Arivaca. See also: Murders of Raul and Brisenia Flores (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Raul_and_Brisenia_Flores)

So much for some of those positive features of a "strong local force of border patrol." I s'pose this incident could be spun as a strong deterrent to boys running away, though I'm sure Arivaca Boys Ranch will refer to it as "Arbinger Principles." :D
Title: Shawna Forde, Minutemen Leader, Arrested In Double Killing..
Post by: Ursus on November 08, 2011, 01:42:27 PM
Here's a piece from the Huffington Post, shortly after Shawna Forde's arrest:

A curious tangential tidbit: Shawna Forde claims to have formerly worked as a "youth counselor" (amongst several other professions).

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The Huffington Post
Shawna Forde, Minutemen Leader, Arrested In Double Killing In Arizona (http://http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/shawna-forde-minutemen-le_n_215246.html)

BOB CHRISTIE · Associated Press · 06/13/09 06:52 PM

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PHOENIX — Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.

Jason Eugene Bush, 34, Shawna Forde, 41, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges, said Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, Ariz.

The trio are alleged to have dressed as law enforcement officers and forced their way into a home about 10 miles north of the Mexican border in rural Arivaca on May 30, wounding a woman and fatally shooting her husband and their 9-year-old daughter. Their motive was financial, Dupnik said.

"The husband who was murdered has a history of being involved in narcotics and there was an anticipation that there would be a considerable amount of cash at this location as well as the possibility of drugs," Dupnik said.

Forde is the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a small border watch group, and Bush goes by the nickname "Gunny" and is its operations director, according to the group's Web site. She is from Everett, Wash., has recently been living in Arizona and was once associated with the better known and larger Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

A statement attributed to officers of Forde's group and posted on its Web site on Saturday extended condolences to the victims' families and said the group doesn't condone such acts and will cooperate with law enforcement.

"This is not what Minutemen do," said member Chuck Stonex, who responded to an e-mail from The Associated Press sent through the Web site. "Minutemen observe, document and report. This is nothing more than a cold-hearted criminal act, and that is all we want to say."

The assailants planned to leave no one alive, Dupnik said at a press conference in Tucson on Friday. He said Forde was the ringleader.

"This was a planned home invasion where the plan was to kill all the people inside this trailer so there would be no witnesses," Dupnik said. "To just kill a 9-year-old girl because she might be a potential witness to me is just one of the most despicable acts that I have heard of."

Dupnik said Forde continued working through Friday to raise a large amount of money to make her anti-illegal immigrant operation more sophisticated.

Forde denied involvement as she was led from sheriff's headquarters.

"No, I did not do it," she said. "I had nothing to do with it."

Gaxiola also denied involvement; Bush was arrested at a Kingman, Ariz., hospital where he was being treated for a leg wound he allegedly received when the woman who survived the attack managed to get a gun and fire back.

Killed were 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her 29-year-old father, Raul Junior Flores. The name of the wounded woman who survived the attack hasn't been released.

Forde is well known in the anti-illegal immigration community, said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University-San Bernardino.

"She's someone who even within the anti-immigration movement has been labeled as unstable," Levin said. "She was basically forced out of another anti-immigrant group, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, and then founded her own organization."

Stonex, of Alamagordo, N.M., said he met Forde while on an Arizona border watch operation last fall, and liked her despite her reputation in the Minutemen community.

"I know she's always had sort of a checkered past but I take people for what I see and not what I hear," the 57-year-old said.

She recruited him to start a new chapter in New Mexico, but was secretive about her group or its members. Stonex said he didn't know how to recruit for a chapter and never did.

He said Forde called him on the day of the attack while he was visiting Arizona and asked him to bring bandages to an Arivaca home because Bush had been wounded. Stonex said it appeared Bush had a relatively minor gunshot wound, which he treated.

He said Forde and Bush told him Bush been wounded by a smuggler who shot at him while the group were patrolling the desert.

Stonex said he didn't suspect that might not be the case until was contacted by a deputy on Saturday about their alleged involvement in the crime.

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On the Net:

Minuteman American Defense: http://minutemenamericandefense.org (http://minutemenamericandefense.org)


Copyright © 2011 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.
Title: Arbinger Principles
Post by: cmack on November 08, 2011, 05:13:49 PM
I like the principles and can see how their practice can be beneficial in interpersonal, family, and business relationships. The question is how well they can be implemented in any program.

http://www.arbinger.com/downloads/princ ... olence.pdf (http://www.arbinger.com/downloads/principles_of_non_violence.pdf)

THE ARBINGER PRINCIPLES OF NONVIOLENCE

The Arbinger Institute is the worldwide leader in scholarship, information, and training
regarding the age-old problem of “self-deception” and its solution. Arbinger’s work
demonstrates that there is much more to violence and crises involving violence than
meets the eye. The prevailing view of violence is that it is a behavioral issue. But this is
incorrect. Violence is actually a matter of what is called “way of being”—the way one
person, whatever his behavior, is seeing and responding to another at any given time.
An outward act of violence is actually a symptom of this deeper violence—violence in
one’s way of being. There is no real or lasting solution to outward violence without a
solution to this deeper violence.

The solution to violence grows out of the following foundational principles:

1. Every human being is a PERSON—a being with hopes, needs, cares, and fears.

2. When we regard others’ hopes, needs, cares, and fears as inferior to, or less
legitimate than, our own, we see others as less than they are—as objects rather
than as people.

3. To see a fellow person as an inferior object is to harbor a violent heart toward
that person.

4. No matter our outward behavior, we end up communicating how we feel about
others. To see others as objects, then, is to do violence to them—it is to swing at
them with our hearts.

5. When others detect violence in our hearts, they tend to become defensive and to
see US as objects. Violence in one heart provokes violence in others.

6. Most occasions of outward violence are manifestations of a prior, and often
escalating, conflict between violent hearts. And attempts to curb violence, if
done with a violent heart, actually provoke further violence.

7. Any effort to reduce outward violence will succeed only to the extent that it
addresses the prior and core problem—the problem of violent hearts.


Arbinger has been helping organizations replace violence and conflict with cooperation
and peace for over 20 years. For an introduction to this work, see Arbinger’s recent
book, Leadership and Self-Deception, available at amazon.com and at bookstores
nationwide.

For information regarding Arbinger’s Nonviolent Crisis Training and other
programs, please contact Arbinger.
© 2000 1 -800-307-9415
The ARBINGER Institute http://www.arbinger.com (http://www.arbinger.com)
Title: Review of Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: cmack on November 08, 2011, 05:28:40 PM
I'm reluctant to post Tom's whole review, but I think it is worth reading for anyone interested in Arivaca.

http://www.familylight.com/link3/3.03/3 ... rivaca.htm (http://www.familylight.com/link3/3.03/3.032/A/Arivaca.htm)

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The principal partner (yes, there are silent partners who have invested and are not visible) is Ron Searle, a man who has had a thirty year career as an educator, most recently on the faculty at Arizona State University.

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It is a true diamond first and foremost because of the relationship basis of the program (key staff with staff, key staff with boys, and boys with boys).  We frankly are not aware of any other teen program with a more intense relationship basis, and there are clearly a number of programs that in the range we usually deal with that are outstanding in this regard.  This exceeds the best of them.

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 However in both cases (Arivaca and  Intermountain) the first goal with each boy is keeping the him physically and emotionally safe rather than demanding behavioral conformity, as is true in most programs.    Think carefully about that.   Almost every teen program we are familiar with, including those we give high marks for relationship based interaction, puts a very high priority on conformity to behavioral expectations.  At Arivaca, if it isn’t tied to safety, in most instances the staff will follow Arbinger principles and let the boy deviate from the expectations.

This explains the beds that are unmade or made sloppily, for example. Boys will come on board in time.  Rebellion is no fun when there is no one to fight against.  We think the long established high quality mainstream programs should stop and take a look at this.  The payoff is a more rapid and complete buy-in by the boys than we have seen in more typically run programs.

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  Tom says, “When I meet with students in a program, I consistently ask the students, ‘What are three things you would change about this program?’   I heard answers like I had never heard before in any program.   The three of the most common:  ‘Free up Ron from administrative duties so he can spend all of his time with us,’ ‘Allow us to stay longer and don’t make us go home so soon,’  and ‘Get Ron more money.’    Note that the third answer related to the fact that the boys trust Ron to spend any available resources on them.  (A fourth answer was ‘Don’t let the program get bigger,’ but it is growing).   I have never seen teenage boys – even teenage boys who were not previously severely oppositional – develop such intense loyalty and frankly affection for the adults to whom they are responsible.”    

When Loi Eberle commented on the program to us in an email, she said (quoted with permission):  “The student residents are given a lot of room to choose to cooperate, which sometimes involves someone riding off into the sunset on their horse, and ultimately turning around and coming back.”  She expressed it better than I could.  The boys are not molded or forced to do much.  They are kept safe. Physically and emotionally safe. They are invited and encouraged to do things the program thinks will be good for them.  Some do not do so immediately, but after a time they all do.  The boys do not at any time feel coerced or put down.  When we describe the flexibility, it sounds like anarchy, but it anything but anarchy.  This is the most self regulated group of boys we have ever seen not just in a therapeutic environment but in any other places that boys congregate.  Ron Searle explains it by saying, “The boys begin to do the things we want them to do when to do so is really who they are.  We don’t encourage phony compliance.”  

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While boys will be able to progress with accumulating academic credits and might even catch up from being behind, this is not a high powered academic environment for students who should be getting a strong academic challenge.   Students with special academic needs will get learning support.  The academic area leaves room for improvement, a fact Ron Searle does not attempt to hide.  

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We would like to see this or another program that has a similar relationship base also offer the clinical and educational sophistication that we see in some of the better programs that are well established.   But we never forget the great body of research that that says most of the them, quality relationships are far more important to positive outcome than clinical sophistication.  In almost every case we would prefer a setting with this kind of relationship base and lacking clinical sophistication over the clinically sophisticated setting that does not sustain quality interpersonal relationships.

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It did not appear that any of the boys we spoke with directly had gone to Arivaca from wilderness.   However, Ron advises that they have had a few boys come from wilderness. He says those boys got into the program more quickly, but after a month in the program at Arivaca there was no observable difference between their progress and that of the boys who had come directly to Arivaca. Since this program can stand alone effectively in preparing boys to “buy into” treatment and personal growth, we do not recommend a wilderness program prior to Arivaca unless it is needed for assessment purposes,  prior to selecting a longer term program.  

I'm uncomfortable with any program that holds people against their will, and I'd like to know what their communication policy is regarding letters and phone calls and whether they are monitored, but in total Arivaca seems to be a rather soft program as such places go.
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: N.O.S.O.B. on November 08, 2011, 06:11:59 PM
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: natso on December 05, 2011, 04:03:16 PM
My son was at the ranch from December 2010 until October 2011.  Is the place perfect NO.... not even close.  That said, the people who operate the ranch care more for the boys then they do for themselves.  The boys work hard both physically and mentally.  The therapeutic staff pushes the kids and parents a like.  

I won't waste time telling my son's entire story and now that he has been home for a couple of months I can say we have had some pretty big ups and downs but there is not a doubt in my mind that the ranch was worth every penny we paid and every tear we shed for my son.

If your seriously considering ABR or someplace similar, I'm happy to answer questions.  [email protected].  Please mention Arivaca in the subject so I don't assume your spam.
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: cmack on December 05, 2011, 04:09:28 PM
Quote from: "natso"
My son was at the ranch from December 2010 until October 2011.  Is the place perfect NO.... not even close.  That said, the people who operate the ranch care more for the boys then they do for themselves.  The boys work hard both physically and mentally.  The therapeutic staff pushes the kids and parents a like.  

I won't waste time telling my son's entire story and now that he has been home for a couple of months I can say we have had some pretty big ups and downs but there is not a doubt in my mind that the ranch was worth every penny we paid and every tear we shed for my son.

If your seriously considering ABR or someplace similar, I'm happy to answer questions.  [email protected].  Please mention Arivaca in the subject so I don't assume your spam.

Thanks for posting. First-hand accounts are always welcomed. What improvements do you think they should make. One major concern many people have regarding such programs is the restricted communication between parents and children. Were letters and phone calls monitored/censored? How were complaints handled if students thought they had been mistreated or their rights violated?

Please ask your son if he would be willing to share his perspective on Arivaca and his time there.
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Ursus on December 06, 2011, 04:38:20 PM
Quote from: "natso"
My son was at the ranch from December 2010 until October 2011.  Is the place perfect NO.... not even close.  That said, the people who operate the ranch care more for the boys then they do for themselves.  The boys work hard both physically and mentally.  The therapeutic staff pushes the kids and parents a like.  

I won't waste time telling my son's entire story and now that he has been home for a couple of months I can say we have had some pretty big ups and downs but there is not a doubt in my mind that the ranch was worth every penny we paid and every tear we shed for my son.

If your seriously considering ABR or someplace similar, I'm happy to answer questions.  [email protected].  Please mention Arivaca in the subject so I don't assume your spam.
Thanks for posting, natso.

Fwiw, re. your son's current coping strategies, being out of a program for a coupla months is not necessarily an accurate reflection of how he may be behaving a year or so down the line. Not wishing to put a big damper on your current enthusiasm, but... the real effects are unlikely to surface for some time. Subjecting anyone, especially a kid, to any kind of thought coercion is to regress them. How they are later able to piece themselves together again ... remains to be seen.

As for the staff "car[ing] more for the boys then they do for themselves," while all very laudable, this doesn't necessarily translate into the use of sound psychological practices, despite however noble the intentions may have been. Just sayin' ...

Having said all that, I do hope things work out for you and your son, and that my concerns can be roundly discounted at some later date.
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: unicorn33 on February 12, 2012, 02:45:08 AM
PLEASE parents, get your kids out of this Ranch. They are making 2,250,000 dollars every 6 months for the 50 kids that are enrolled.THEY WANT YOU MONEY< AND WILL ABUSE YOUR LITTLE CHILD!!!!!! I am a SURVIVOR of an out of the country program, where we were abused, harrassed, humiliated and brain washed through 25 seminars.They SHUT this program down, and about 20+ more. PLEASE google about the abuse FOUND at this ranch! And any WWASPS or progam like this. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE trust me when i tell you al this, if you dont agree, to each their own. I feel compelled to let everyone know in any way i can. I know more about these programs than i will say on here, if you wan to know more of my personal experiences, contact me at [email protected]

Thank you
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: wesleyhc on February 18, 2012, 08:34:23 PM
Hallows is now a administrator at Ariviaca boys ranch. Ariviaca has almost the same schedule as Casa. I just wanted to let you know from personal expierience that he was also a part of High Impact. If you havent heard of it look it up. I was threatned by Luke himself that if I didnt work the program that I would be sent there. They contacted my parents and were going to send me but my parents decided to pull me out of Casa By The Sea. Bolth Casa By The Sea and High Impact were shut down by mexican authorities. Casa was closed in 2004 and High Impact in 2001. Believe me he may seem like a great guy but the only reason he is doing what hes doing is because the money. I would not ever dream of having anyone like that in my childrens lives.
Title: Luke Hallows at Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Ursus on February 18, 2012, 09:37:14 PM
Quote from: "wesleyhc"
Hallows is now a administrator at Ariviaca boys ranch. Ariviaca has almost the same schedule as Casa. I just wanted to let you know from personal expierience that he was also a part of High Impact. If you havent heard of it look it up. I was threatned by Luke himself that if I didnt work the program that I would be sent there. They contacted my parents and were going to send me but my parents decided to pull me out of Casa By The Sea. Bolth Casa By The Sea and High Impact were shut down by mexican authorities. Casa was closed in 2004 and High Impact in 2001. Believe me he may seem like a great guy but the only reason he is doing what hes doing is because the money. I would not ever dream of having anyone like that in my childrens lives.
• Luke Hallows' Facebook profile:

http://www.facebook.com/people/Luke-Hal ... 2109391040 (http://www.facebook.com/people/Luke-Hallows/100002109391040)

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• What is currently publicly available on Luke Hallows' LinkedIn profile:

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Luke Hallows (http://http://www.linkedin.com/pub/luke-hallows/b/194/560)
Administrator at Arivaca Boys Ranch
Tucson, Arizona Area | Ranching

Luke Hallows's Overview[/list]
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Luke Hallows's Experience

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Arivaca Boys Ranch

May 2007 – Present (4 years 8 months)


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Title: Arivaca Boys Ranch - staff list (fr. HEAL-online)
Post by: Ursus on February 18, 2012, 10:05:14 PM
HEAL-online's staff list for Arivaca Boys Ranch (http://http://www.heal-online.org/arivaca.htm)... Luke Hallows is noted here as "Interim Director/Administrator":

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This is a staff list for Arivaca Boys Ranch in Arivaca, AZ
(we are working to acquire the complete records for ALL years)

We advise current and/or former staff to report any abuses you may have witnessed while working at Arivaca Boys Ranch.  For information on your rights and how to take action, visit http://www.heal-online.org/blowthewhistle.htm (http://www.heal-online.org/blowthewhistle.htm).  If you were fired or forced to resign because you opposed any illegal and/or unethical practices at Arivaca Boys Ranch, you have the right to take action.

If you were harmed (family or survivor) by Arivaca Boys Ranch (http://http://www.heal-online.org/childtortureusa.htm#arivaca), please contact [email protected] if you remember the long-term employees and from which years. This will help! Also, if you recognize any of these staff as having worked at another program, please send in any information about their past or present employment at other facilities and/or cults.

Please don't place your loved one in Arivaca Boys Ranch and rescue them if they are there now.

Name ... Unit/Position ... Additional Information

Ron Searle ... Managing Partner ... Owner at The Diamond Consortium. Also formerly with LDS Church Education (Mormon).
D. Hyrum Wright ... Clinical Director ... Graduate of BYU (Brigham Young University--birthplace of abusive outdoor programs.) Formerly with the Tempe Institute (LDS).
Glenn Banks Jr. ... Therapist ... Formerly with the Anasazi Foundation (http://http://www.heal-online.org/anasazicontract.htm). Also formerly with the Air National Guard.
Mike & Margaret Stroud ... Directors ... Educated at BYU.
Boyd Anderson ... Facilities
Luke Hallows ... Interim Director/Administrator ... Luke Hallows is formerly with WWASPS (http://http://www.heal-online.org/wwasp.htm), specifically the Casa by the Sea (http://http://www.isaccorp.org/casa/casa-by-the-sea.09.16.04.html) program which is/was confirmedly abusive and closed as a result.
Phil Winch ... Mentor ... Graduate of BYU. Formerly worked at an unnamed "ranch" and unnamed wilderness program.
Ted Snow ... Cattle Program Mgr.
Allison Kellis ... Wrangler
Don Conover ... Wrangler
Dallin Whipple ... Wrangler
Carter Poulsen ... CFO
Norm King ... Partner
John Poulsen ... Partner
Clif Pinckard ... Partner[/list][/size]
 * (Arivaca Boys Ranch, like many other programs in this industry, keeps a "tight lid" on any specific information regarding their staff, qualifications, and practices.  Please contact us with the names of any staff of which you have firsthand knowledge or experience. Thank you for your help.)

Last Updated: September 19th, 2010
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: N.O.S.O.B. on February 18, 2012, 10:22:44 PM
Title: Arivaca Boys Ranch - The Staff
Post by: Ursus on February 19, 2012, 12:04:50 PM
Arivaca Boys Ranch's current staff lineup... Apparently Luke Hallows is now Operations Director:

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The Staff (http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/staff.php)

Managing Director
Ron Searle, MBA, "Horse Whisperer"

(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Ron-Searle.jpg)

Ron lives on the ranch oversees all of it's operations. He tries to be personally involved with the boys as much as possible. Ron has 18 years of experience in youth education both as an Instructor and Principal of high school students, and 10 years as a University Instructor at Arizona State University. He also founded and owns The Diamond Consortium in Mesa Arizona. He holds a bachelors degree in family financial counseling and a Masters in Business Administration from Arizona State. He has spent many years counseling and working with struggling youth. He has 30 years of horse experience and is a "horse whisperer." He also has 20 plus years of working with young men in church-related and Boy Scout activities. He has served as a Varsity Scout Coach, a Venture Post Leader, and a Unit Commissioner for the Boy Scout program. Ron’s desire to help young people, and his love of horses, has led to the vision of the Arivaca Boys Ranch and Academy. Ron also is a licensed Arbinger Instructor and is committed to the Arbinger principles as a cultural basis for the ranch. Ron is dedicated to young people and their futures. Ron and his wife Peggy have eight children and are grandparents of seven.

Clinical Director

D. Hyrum Wright, holds an EDS from University of South Carolina in Counseling. He has a Master Degree from Brigham Young University and a Bachelors Degree from the University of Utah. He currently has his own counseling practice. He is also our director of counseling services. He has 20 years of educational experience (current director of the ASU Institute of Religion) and 10 years of counseling experience. Hyrum has experience in "Natural Horsemanship" and is able to draw from his experience with horse to help clients. He has will helped develop both the curriculum for the boys and their parents. He will also help in training staff and counselors in "Natural Horsemanship" to augment their counseling. Hyrum and his wife have three children and currently live in Gilbert, Arizona.

Chris Wallace, Ph.D. – Director, Psychotherapy Senior Facilitator and Consultant.

Trained in psychology and the clinical treatment of families, Chris has been a practicing, doctoral level Marriage & Family Therapist since 1990 and for twelve years, was the clinical director at ANASAZI Foundation, a nationally recognized youth treatment program in Mesa, Arizona utilizing the wilderness to bring about a change of heart in struggling youth and their families. Dr. Wallace is senior facilitator for the Arbinger Institute since 1993 and has been a teacher and consultant in the United States and Europe in many industries, including healthcare, military, government, aerospace, retailing, biotechnology, service and professional groups, and tele-communications, among others. Dr. Wallace also serves as a senior consultant for Arbinger's Continuing Education Program.

Therapists
Dave Jensen, LMSW


For over nine years Dave has been working with adolescents, young adults and the families that care for them. Dave has worked with youth and young adults in hospitals, outpatient clinics, group homes, wilderness therapy and now is proud to be associated with Arivaca Boys Ranch. Dave earned his BA in Religious Studies from Arizona State University with the intent to transition the skills and knowledge acquired there into his future counseling career; he went on to earn his Master of Social Work degree from New York University. His studies and training emphasized clinical intervention including, individual, family and group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and addictions counseling. He has a special interest in helping young adults face the challenges of their world and has seen that the decisions young people make now will shape them for years to come. Dave has worked with the Arbinger Institute for nine years and believes strongly that problems exist in relationships rather than in individuals, and that people have the fundamental ability to change their hearts and their lives. This philosophy informs his therapy as he emphasizes a strengths based and solution focused approach.

Tyler Hoyt

Tyler has been at the ranch since May 2010.  He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the state of Arizona. He, prior to working at Arivaca Ranch, came from a children's outpatient 0 to 5 clinic where he did family therapy, play therapy, and much work with adoptive and foster families; he also worked with families attempting to rehabilitate and reunify with their children after being involved with Child Protective Services (CPS). Before that Tyler was trained in Functional Family Therapy (FFT), by James Alexander, and worked as an in-home interventionist of struggling teenage children and their families. He received his Masters of Science degree at Oklahoma State University's accredited marriage and family therapy program. He was mentored under an esteemed couple's researcher and clinician, and worked with couples who adopted children with special needs through the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative. Tyler earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Marriage, Family, and Human Development from Brigham Young University where he met his wife, the mother of their four children. He and his family live in the Tucson area.

Xela Goodman
(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Xela.jpg)

After receiving her bachelor's degree in History and Education, Xela served in the Peace Corps for nearly three years as a school and community resource volunteer in South Africa. It was in this foreign environment where Xela developed her adventurous spirit and fully understood and embraced her passion for being of service to others. Upon returning from her overseas adventure, Xela received her Master's Degree in Social Work from Arizona State University. She first began her clinical experience working with adults who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness where she ran group therapy and served as an advocate. After working with the adult population, Xela took on the challenge of working with adolescents and was captivated. For several years, Xela worked as a clinician at two different wilderness therapeutic programs before finding her way to Arivaca Boys Ranch. She has experience working with a variety of issues including defiance, substance abuse, depression, trauma and more. Xela typically uses art therapy and mindfulness techniques to aid her strengths based and systems perspective, Gestalt approach. It is Xela's hope that the teens she works with will gain a better sense of self and confidence while learning effective coping and interpersonal skills.

Glenn Banks, Jr., is a Licensed, Independent Substance Abuse Counselor and holds a Masters Degree in Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy from the University of Phoenix.  He also holds a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Arizona State University.  He has 12 years of experience working in the helping professions.  He was a trailwalker for the Anasazi Youth Wilderness program.  He became the Clinical Director for the dually-adjudicated youth program at Prehab of Arizona.  He performed an internship with Empact SPC of Tempe, AZ counseling individuals, couples, and families, and at the same time, he worked for the Maricopa County Mobile Crisis Unit.  During his 7 years working for ValueOptions and Magellan of AZ, he assessed individuals for SMI (Seriously Mentally Ill) benefits.  He attained the rank of Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America and has been a Scoutmaster for 4 years.  Glenn served our country for 6 years in the United States Air Force as an encryptionist; including service with the 106th Air Group in the Arizona Air National Guard.

Operations Manager
Luke Hallows


Luke has helped direct two youth schools in the last 14 years as well as built three youth programs from the ground up. He has experience in training staffs and developing facilities for new programs. He also has experience as an enrollment counselor. Luke as owned his own landscape business and has a variety of experience in construction and maintenance. Luke loves to be around young men, and they love to be around him. Boys learn to love hard work under Luke's tutelage. Luke and his wife have five children and live in nearby Sahaurita.

Program Director
Matt Howard

Our program director Matt Howard calls the ranch home. He lives there with his wife Rachelle and their two young children Eli and Jonathan. The Howards share years of experience helping teens in wilderness therapy. Life long students of the Arbinger Institute it is their belief that lasting change comes only when a trusted friend makes an unassuming invitation to change. They hope to be such a friend to the boys at the ranch.

Both Matt and Rachelle attended Brigham Young University where Matt received a Bachelor degree in English Language and Rachelle a Masters degree in Marriage Family and Human Development. Matt takes care of the day-to-day operations of the ranch. Whether its planning the daily schedule, showing the ranch to guests, or driving the tractor he's there to pitch in. Rachelle opens her home to the boys once a week where she teaches the boys a class about morality and values. Eli and Jonathan are "little brothers" to all the boys, proving a never ending source of love and admiration.The Howards delight at the opportunity to learn from and love each boy that comes to the Ranch.

Academic Director
Devin Tarwater

(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Devin-T.jpg)

"Born and raised in Tempe, Arizona. Earned Eagle Scout at the age of 13.
Participated in Freshman, JV, and Varsity tennis and Marching Band in High School. Lived in Italy for two years as a service volunteer. Taught Italian for three years in Provo, Utah. Graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Economics and a degree in Italian. Started working at Arivaca Boys Ranch in May 2010 and enjoys every minute helping the boys work towards their academic success. Devin is currently preparing to attend law school to pursue a career in either immigration or sports law, but he doesn't let that distract him from doing the best he can to help build men of integrity on the ranch."

Enrollment Director
Kathy Cazier

(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/kathy.jpg)

Our Director of Enrollment came to us from ITT Technical Institute In Spokane. She understands and supports the value of education in the future of our young men. You will find a willing and understanding ear to discuss your son and our program here at Arivaca Boys Ranch. She raised 7 children and she and her three youngest children have been thru the Arbinger programs. She can answer all your questions and help you thru the sometimes daunting task of finding the right program for your son and assisting in the enrollment process itself.

Academic Assistant
Jill Farrel

(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Jill.jpg)

A retired special ed teacher of 30 years, Jill Farrell serves as our tutor. Her indomitable spirit and cheery smile rub off on even the most reluctant of students. While Jill is there to help all the boys with their questions her primary responsibility is to help boys who are in need of special accommodations. Jill is also our connection to the local library, supplying books for the ranches many book worms.

Director of Food Services (Ranch Chef)
Jon Sharp

(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Jon-Sharp.jpg)

Jon Sharpe is our ranch chef. Hired as "the cook" but the quality of his
cooking quickly promoted his title to "chef". Jon has worked in many resorts in southern Arizona as a chef.

Jon can often be found sharing bits of wisdom and encouragement with the boys as he serves up meals. A quiet example of honest living, Jon is liked and respected by all the boys. They show their respect by keeping Jon's kitchen rules: no cussing in the kitchen, respect to elders, and dinner before dessert.

Jon is also an accomplished carpenter and teaches a woodworking class twice a week.

Assistant Food Specialist
Chonchita Alverez, 35

(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Choncita.jpg)

Conchita lives in Arivaca. She has work at the Post Office, Community Human Resources, and Carivaca (care center). Conchita loves the young men at the ranch as much as they love and respect her. She is a great asset to the program.

Special Activities Director
Lolo DeMarco – 25

(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/lolo.jpg)

Lolo lives in Tucson. She is enrolled in school majoring in Recreational Management and Youth Leadership. She is minoring in psychology. Lolo finds joy in her personal interaction and relationships with each boy she serves.

Staff (Wranglers)
Ricky Lyman 24

(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Ricky-Lyman.jpg)

Ricky lives in Gilbert, AZ. He loves the outdoors, camping, and fishing. He loves to spend time with the boys camping, riding horses, and special activities. Ricky states, "I love to see the miracles unfold in these boys lives as they slowly change and become men of integrity."

Jordan Mayberry 24
(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/JOrdan.jpg)

Jordan has studied at Eastern Arizona College and hopes to continue to become a high school teacher. He loves being a big brother to the young men at the ranch and sets a great example. He finds great satisfaction in seeing these young men change their lives and loves being a part of this transformation.

Chris Hoerner 23
(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Chris-.jpg)

Chris is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. He has a degree in Social Work and a Minor in Outdoor Educatio. He wants to be a flight nurse. Chris loves building relationships with each individual boy at the ranch.

KJ (Kevin Johnson) - 23
(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/KJ.jpg)

KJ grew up in Delta Utah but made his way to Arizona. He now lives in Mesa. He is interested in attending Law School. For now, he loves spending time at the ranch, working with horses and learning. He most loves developing relationships with the young men here and watching them grow.

Kyle Fuller 22
(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Kyle.jpg)

Kyle lives in Mesa. He is currently in a program training to be a "myropractor." He likes being with the boys. He like the Arbinger principles, and he loves the ranch setting.

Jeff Hoskins 25
(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Jeff-H.jpg)

Jeff lives in Gilbert. He hopes to pursue a career in electrical engineering. Jeff loves watching how the ranch makes such a difference in young men's lives.

Dan Wooten
(http://http://arivacaboysranch.com/images/Dan-W.jpg)

Jeff Nielson 22

Jeff has been at the ranch nearly a year. The boys respect and look up to him. He is an active outdoorsman who camps, rappels, and loves to ride horses. Jeff lives in Mesa and has recently enlisted in the Marines. He will be leaving shortly. He will be missed by all the boys who love him.

Collin Perryman 27

Collin comes from California. He has a degrees from Arizona State University and is starting a PHD program in Montana in the fall. He hopes to become a therapist. Collin adds maturity and insight to our wrangler staff.

Scott Spencer 23

Scott wants to study architecture. He lives in Mesa. "I really like being able to see boys change for the better. It is an inspiration to me."

Brennan Kartchner 22

Brennan attends the University of Arizona. He is majoring in Political Science. Brennan is an expert guitar player and currently plays in two bands. He shares his talents with the ranch and many boys are learning guitar. He is interested in a career in politics.

Austin Cazier 22

Austin attends school in Tucson where he lives. He is majoring in Developmental Psychology and interested in a career in education. He plays the drums and gives the boys drum lessons when he is on shift. The young men love Austin and he is a great example

Nathan Smith

Chris Bawden

Shawn Nichols

Ryker Kizzar

Stetson Kizzar

Jeremy Buehner


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Title: (1st?) "Luke Hallows," p.1 (from antiwwasp.us)
Post by: Ursus on February 19, 2012, 12:55:10 PM
There are more than a few posts mentioning Luke Hallows and his previous stint at Casa by the Sea in a coupla threads on antiwwasps.us, both titled "Luke Hallows."

Here's the first page of what I'm guessing is the first thread:

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(1st?) Luke Hallows (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows) (page 1)


Char  07-25-2007    #1 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=929&viewfull=1#post929)
kev  07-25-2007    #2 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=931&viewfull=1#post931)
bill.boyles  08-06-2007    #3 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=991&viewfull=1#post991)
RockyKandolaC320  09-02-2007    #4 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1425&viewfull=1#post1425)
kev  09-02-2007    #5 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1439&viewfull=1#post1439)
bill.boyles  09-05-2007    #6 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1465&viewfull=1#post1465)
Char  09-05-2007    #7 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1472&viewfull=1#post1472)
Lily_Shatteredsoul  09-05-2007    #8 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1479&viewfull=1#post1479)
MorganJensen  09-14-2007    #9 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1647&viewfull=1#post1647)
bill.boyles  09-15-2007    #10 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1667&viewfull=1#post1667)
Char  09-16-2007    #11 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1688&viewfull=1#post1688)
bill.boyles  09-16-2007    #12 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1692&viewfull=1#post1692)
Miss MillA  09-21-2007    #13 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1810&viewfull=1#post1810)
bill.boyles  09-21-2007    #14 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1822&viewfull=1#post1822)
Miss MillA  09-22-2007    #15 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1834&viewfull=1#post1834)
kev  09-22-2007    #16 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1840&viewfull=1#post1840)
Miss MillA  09-22-2007    #17 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1841&viewfull=1#post1841)
bill.boyles  09-23-2007    #18 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1864&viewfull=1#post1864)
Miss MillA  09-25-2007    #19 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1893&viewfull=1#post1893)
bill.boyles  09-25-2007    #20 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1906&viewfull=1#post1906)
Miss MillA  09-25-2007    #21 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1912&viewfull=1#post1912)
bill.boyles  09-25-2007    #22 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1916&viewfull=1#post1916)
MorganJensen  09-25-2007    #23 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1918&viewfull=1#post1918)
Miss MillA  09-25-2007 #24 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1921&viewfull=1#post1921)
bill.boyles  09-25-2007    #25 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1928&viewfull=1#post1928)


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Title: (1st?) "Luke Hallows," p.2 (from antiwwasp.us)
Post by: Ursus on February 19, 2012, 01:32:12 PM
Same thread, second page...

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(1st?) Luke Hallows (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows/page2) (page 2)


Miss MillA  09-25-2007    #26 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1932&viewfull=1#post1932)
bill.boyles  09-26-2007    #27 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1951&viewfull=1#post1951)
Miss MillA  09-26-2007    #28 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=1956&viewfull=1#post1956)
Char  09-26-2007    #29 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=2005&viewfull=1#post2005)
Miss MillA  09-26-2007    #30 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=2007&viewfull=1#post2007)
kev  10-01-2007    #31 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=2262&viewfull=1#post2262)
Shut um all down  10-06-2007    #32 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=2695&viewfull=1#post2695)
Miss MillA  10-06-2007    #33 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=2709&viewfull=1#post2709)
Char  10-06-2007    #34 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=2729&viewfull=1#post2729)
bill.boyles  10-07-2007    #35 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=2773&viewfull=1#post2773)
Char  10-20-2007    #36 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3695&viewfull=1#post3695)
kev  10-20-2007    #37 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3697&viewfull=1#post3697)
bill.boyles  10-20-2007    #38 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3703&viewfull=1#post3703)
kev  10-21-2007    #39 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3706&viewfull=1#post3706)
kev  10-21-2007    #40 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3707&viewfull=1#post3707)
Char  10-21-2007    #41 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3714&viewfull=1#post3714)
bill.boyles  10-21-2007    #42 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3716&viewfull=1#post3716)
Char  10-21-2007    #43 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3728&viewfull=1#post3728)
Miss MillA  10-24-2007    #44 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3872&viewfull=1#post3872)
bill.boyles  10-24-2007    #45 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3892&viewfull=1#post3892)
Miss MillA  10-25-2007    #46 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3931&viewfull=1#post3931)
melcarmar  10-25-2007    #47 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=3944&viewfull=1#post3944)
Miss MillA  10-27-2007    #48 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4005&viewfull=1#post4005)
MorganJensen  11-10-2007    #49 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4319&viewfull=1#post4319)
Miss MillA  11-10-2007    #50 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4322&viewfull=1#post4322)


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Title: (1st?) "Luke Hallows," p.3 (from antiwwasp.us)
Post by: Ursus on February 19, 2012, 01:38:53 PM
(1st?) Luke Hallows (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows/page3) (page 3)


bill.boyles  11-10-2007    #51 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4333&viewfull=1#post4333)
Raymond Portillos  11-11-2007    #52 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4358&viewfull=1#post4358)
Miss MillA  11-13-2007    #53 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4372&viewfull=1#post4372)
bill.boyles  11-13-2007    #54 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4388&viewfull=1#post4388)
Miss MillA  11-13-2007    #55 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4394&viewfull=1#post4394)
ladilucix  11-29-2007    #56 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4651&viewfull=1#post4651)
Miss MillA  12-01-2007    #57 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4678&viewfull=1#post4678)
Marshall  12-08-2007    #58 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4801&viewfull=1#post4801)
Miss MillA  12-08-2007    #59 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4807&viewfull=1#post4807)
bill.boyles  12-08-2007    #60 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=4814&viewfull=1#post4814)
Raymond Portillos  01-16-2008    #61 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=5560&viewfull=1#post5560)
bill.boyles  01-17-2008    #62 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=5572&viewfull=1#post5572)
richard Darrington Ran Casa By The Sea????????

Oh We Got His Lying Ass Nailed To The Wall This Time, Boys![/list]
Rosie the Riveter  04-20-2009    #63 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=12823&viewfull=1#post12823)
Rey_Marquez  04-25-2009    #64 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=8580&viewfull=1#post8580)
NileQT87  07-16-2009    #65 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=13225&viewfull=1#post13225)
Rosie the Riveter  07-20-2009    #66 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=13242&viewfull=1#post13242)
torturedkitty  07-21-2009    #67 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=13243&viewfull=1#post13243)
xana  08-20-2009    #68 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=13329&viewfull=1#post13329)
Char
Luke was one of the admin at Casa. He was mormon, and more then likely related to either Dace, Jade or Jason? But maybe not. I never hear anything about Luke anymore, but I have not forgotten him. Anyone else from Casa want to comment?
Luke is my first cousin, jade isn't related, Dace is a distant cousin of my sisters husband. I WISH I COULD FORGET ABOUT HIM! What do you miss about him? I have his moms face book, he is on there.[/list]
kev  08-23-2009    #69 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=13341&viewfull=1#post13341)
julie  12-05-2009    #70 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/1436-Luke-Hallows?p=13755&viewfull=1#post13755)


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Title: (2nd?) "Luke Hallows" (from antiwwasp.us)
Post by: Ursus on February 19, 2012, 01:48:22 PM
And... here's that second thread:

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(2nd?) Luke Hallows (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows)


jensp  09-01-2008    #1 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=9854&viewfull=1#post9854)
Arivaca Boys Rach (http://http://www.arivacaboysranch.com/about-us.html) the same Luke Hallows that used to be working at Casa by the Sea?

If it is the same person, it is mentioned that he has started two programs. If he helped founding Casa by the Sea, what is the name of the other program?[/list]
ladilucix  09-07-2008    #2 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=9894&viewfull=1#post9894)
Miss MillA  09-21-2008    #3 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=10086&viewfull=1#post10086)
Rey_Marquez  11-11-2008    #4 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=10623&viewfull=1#post10623)
kev  12-26-2008    #5 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=10605&viewfull=1#post10605)
Rey_Marquez  01-13-2009    #6 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=11511&viewfull=1#post11511)
rogue  01-17-2009    #7 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=11559&viewfull=1#post11559)
Rey_Marquez
"Luke loves to be around little boys, and they love to be around him"

LOL that was taken from the website.

fixed.[/list]
sailor j  04-07-2009    #8 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=12670&viewfull=1#post12670)
Don aaron Bateman Jr.  04-07-2009    #9 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=12677&viewfull=1#post12677)
Don aaron Bateman Jr.  04-07-2009    #10 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=12678&viewfull=1#post12678)
Rosie the Riveter  04-08-2009    #11 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=12696&viewfull=1#post12696)
Don aaron Bateman Jr.  04-15-2009    #12 (http://http://www.antiwwasp.us/threads/524-Luke-Hallows?p=12754&viewfull=1#post12754)


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Title: Reports Of Abuse Shut Down Boarding Schools (2004)
Post by: Ursus on February 19, 2012, 11:38:08 PM
Luke Hallows was apparently director of Casa when abuse allegations hit the media in 2004, resulting in three behav mod programs being shut down in Mexico, Casa by the Sea being the largest among them. Hallows is quoted at the end of the second of the below two articles regarding the use of restraint.

Here's the first article:

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10News - The San Diego Channel
Reports Of Abuse Shut Down Boarding Schools (http://http://www.10news.com/news/3726169/detail.html)

Schools Focus On Children With Behavior Problems

POSTED: 9:58 am PDT September 13, 2004
UPDATED: 10:17 am PDT September 13, 2004


(http://http://www.10news.com/2004/0913/3726225_200X150.jpg)

SAN DIEGO -- American children who may have been mistreated in rehabilitative boarding schools in Baja California, Mexico, were escorted back into the United States this past weekend, 10News reported.

About 530 students from Casa by the Sea, located outside Ensenada, crossed into the U.S., as did 20 from Casa La Esperanza in Ensenada and other children from Genesis, south of Rosarito Beach.

Behavior modification programs offered at the schools reportedly were developed for children with drug dependencies and behavior problems. Parents reportedly turned to the schools as a last resort.

Authorities raided the schools after receiving reports that the youths were being mistreated.

Most of the children were initially sent to the Town and Country Hotel in Mission Valley where their parents were able to pick them up.

Former Casa by the Sea student Ryan Calburn said he wasn't surprised about the raid. He spent four months there.

"When I was there, some guy got slammed against the wall," Calburn said.

He also said he remembered routinely being forced to sit still for hours as discipline.

Many of the parents who came to pick up their children after the raid said they don't understand.

"He's only gone straight up since he's gone into this program," a parent said.

"It's so frustrating he's come so far, then upheaval, he was on track," another parent said.

Casa by the Sea school officials were not available for comment Sunday.


Copyright 2004 by TheSanDiegoChannel.com.
Title: Boarding Schools Director Responds To Abuse Allegations (200
Post by: Ursus on February 19, 2012, 11:57:47 PM
Here's the second article:

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10News - The San Diego Channel
Boarding Schools Director Responds To Abuse Allegations (http://http://www.10news.com/news/3736092/detail.html)

Schools Focus On Children With Behavior Problems

POSTED: 9:41 am PDT September 16, 2004

(http://http://www.10news.com/2004/0913/3726225_200X150.jpg)

SAN DIEGO -- The head of a boarding school in Baja is responding to allegations of abuse at the school, 10News reported.

Mexican agents shut down three Baja boarding schools, sending hundreds of American teens to a hotel in Mission Valley to await their parents.

Mexican officials reported physical and emotional abuse at Casa by the Sea near Ensenada.

Some former students aren't surprised by the accusations, while others strongly doubt them.

Former student Ryan Calburn said, "When I was there, some guy got slammed against the wall."

However, former student Ariel Mittleman said she never saw any abuse.

"Nobody was ever physically abused there. Nobody was ever neglected there," Mittleman said.

The director of the schools, Luke Hallows, said students do have to be restrained sometimes, but the school follows strict guidelines.


Copyright 2004 by TheSanDiegoChannel.com.
Title: Re: Boarding Schools Director Responds To Abuse Allegations
Post by: Ursus on February 20, 2012, 12:02:44 AM
From the just above article (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=38099&p=413803#p413803), emphasis added:

the school follows strict guidelines.[/list][/size]
Here's a description of Luke Hallows following those "strict guidelines" when it came to the practice of restraining students. Originally posted (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb///viewtopic.php?f=44&t=20056#p413179) earlier this month, emphasis added:

LUKE HALLOWS sitting on top of a 14 year old LITTLE girl screaming and cussing at her in R and R will never leave my memory, or seeing the girls walk through the gates from High impact, where the WWASPS says they had NO affiliation with them!!! I cant belive this! PLEASE PARENTS!!!! THESE PROGRAMS HAVE SEMINARS THAT ARE ABUSIVE AND BRAIN WASHING YOUR POOR KIDS!!! I KNOW MORE THAN YOU KNOW! PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE ANY PERSONAL QUESTIONS THAT I CANT MENTION ON HERE, DUE TO MY FAMILY BEING A PART OF THIS HORRIBLE ABUSE. [email protected] THANK YOU[/list][/size]
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Jillybean415 on March 13, 2012, 02:01:55 AM
I am Lukes Cousin, i spent 18 Months at Casa By the Sea. I have SEEN my cousin abuse children, i have SEEN him sit on top of a girl, cuss her out and scream at her (mind you she was a 14 year old little girl) IF that isnt abuse, then i dont know what is.He to this DAY, does not know i saw him do this.  But i have wrote it al lover the net now hoping he will read it.....i might just email him this little link... It sickens me to see that he is still doing these Programs, and i HOPE he takes a step up and admits his faults and stop all the madness.  My mom is his aunt, and she WISHES to this DAY she never sent me there, now knowing the truth.
Title: Re: Arivaca Boys Ranch
Post by: Jillybean415 on March 13, 2012, 02:31:20 AM
Quote from: "N.O.S.O.B."
Quote from: "unicorn33"
PLEASE parents, get your kids out of this Ranch. They are making 2,250,000 dollars every 6 months for the 50 kids that are enrolled.THEY WANT YOU MONEY< AND WILL ABUSE YOUR LITTLE CHILD!!!!!! I am a SURVIVOR of an out of the country program, where we were abused, harrassed, humiliated and brain washed through 25 seminars.They SHUT this program down, and about 20+ more. PLEASE google about the abuse FOUND at this ranch! And any WWASPS or progam like this. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE trust me when i tell you al this, if you dont agree, to each their own. I feel compelled to let everyone know in any way i can. I know more about these programs than i will say on here, if you wan to know more of my personal experiences, contact me at [email protected]

Thank you

Thanks for writing that!


NO problem <3 Anytime!