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In Denmark we have the socalled Danish Christmas Seal Houses, which in the past was homes for those who came for poor homes where there was lack of food.

Today they treat overweight. A stay is 10 weeks and while there is no LGAT or therapists, they try to help kids by placing them in an environment where building up self-esteem is everything.

But does it help? Yes on one condition. The family back home has to learn to live healthy. When the child returns home they cannot live like they used to. All in the family have to eat healthier - not only the child who was sent away. They learn this by visiting the child in the weekend and in some towns family counselors continue the work with the family once they return, because - and this is important - no fat camp or school can make a long-term change if the family rather than the child is ready to change.

Every child looks at his or her parents and do what they do - not what they say.

Second, no result can be generated with humiliation, shame, punishment or bullying.

When programs like Wellspring Academies or camps use isolation on a child who refuse to work the program, the parents should pull the child at once and choose a family program instead.

I noticed that AEG is on a slow learning process there. Their new Wellspring Fit Clubs is a step on the way, but it is not perfect because what they really should do would be to include a partnership with a local restaurant where the families should go down and receive education in cooking a healthy meal once or twice per week. Including kids in the cooking phase is important because once they leave the home they will be on the fast track down to the burger-joint if they don't know otherwise.

Damn, now I told them how to make money the right way.

Dear [email protected]

In fact you confirmed the abuse.

First corporal punishment. It doesn't work. It teaches violence.

Second the handcuffs. The only facility that should be allowed to use handcuffs is prisons for juvies. They dont belong in a TBS, RTC or a group home.

Third censorship of letters. If parents have decided to place their child out of home, they should at least be able to handle whatever text their child can write. Also in most states laws forbid to restrict communication between parent and child. In Kansas Meadowlark Academy got a warning for doing that.

If the kids were placed at the facility by the court system, then of course the police should be called if they tries to leave, but that was often not the case and if parents wants to place their child outside home, they should involve the social services. Often a problem child represent the result of some domestic problems back home. Problems which could be solved at home with the right kind of help.

Here in Denmark we have a phoneline where kids can call in and report problems at home. It is often 7 to 10 years old complaining about heavily drinking by their own parents. If such problems remain unadressed then you get so-called troubled teenagers. Sweden is a country in the process of outlawing bullying in school. If a child has been bullied this family can sue the school if they have not taken action. Bullying causes illness. Research shows that.

I dont know how things were at home and what kind of actions which lead you to the Anchor Home. All I know is that we have discovered that fosterhomes and out-of-the-city placements are too expensive and produce too poor results compared with building a boarding school next to a public school, where kids who needs structure can live while going to school where they did go before, so they don't loose contact with their peers and the community can show each child that if you break the law, you end up in the boarding section. Has anyone calculated on the cost of having kids in juvies, TBS's, wilderness etc? They did it in Pahrump - Nevada.

Anchor Home was a place where abuse did go on. No question about that. That's why the state of Texas went after them.

The url to the CEDU spin-off category is: http://http://wiki.fornits.com/index.php?title=Category:CEDU_spin-off

What become of their plans of building a second school in South Carolina (Abney Road, Monetta)?

Paulu have been through Google archive and the news flow stop April 2000 with this article: Planners approve school proposal, By Chasiti Kirkland, The Augusta Cronicle, April 22 2000

Caica could use more time on their references. We at Spft are not involved in the dispute over that organization. They are free to use our references on their pages, so they appear more professional.

We  make pride out of finding old records.

Could someone consult their local library and find out what program these kids was in?
Parents Sue Over 3 Deaths in Wilderness Program; Death of 14-Year-Old Boy, By WAYNE KING - Special to The New York Times, November 15, 1979

This list is unfortunately not complete!

Our victim list have several sources:

Beside newspapers those two links gives a lot of names:
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In memory, Suncana Alvarado

Ivy Ridge, home sold for $2.8m, Watertown Daily News

The high school diploma case was too much for them. It seems that the future for this branch of WWASP is Oceanside.
From the article:

The Ivy Ridge property is assessed at $1.9 million and the Route 37 home is assessed at $175,000. School officials didn't return calls for comment.

The former Mater Dei College campus in the town of Oswegatchie was sold to Robert Browning Lichfield Family Limited, Toquerville, Utah, in August 2001 for $1.23 million. The Academy at Ivy Ridge, a school for troubled youths, opened a few months later.

The behavioral modification school has been under scrutiny by the state for several years. Then-Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer determined the school was making fraudulent claims that it was accredited and could issue high school diplomas. As a result of that investigation, Ivy Ridge agreed to pay nearly $1.5 million in refunds and fines.

Spanking with or without clothes is a crime in Denmark and can be punished with up to one month in jail unless other things turn up during the investigation. Then it can get worse.

Just last week a couple of parents got a year in jail for having their daughter doing chores outside without proper clothing and locking her up in a dog cage as they do in programs.

If I had been the mother and a peer court was a possibility I would have chosen for him to take his punishment so he could learn his lesson without getting a record. It may sound harsh with community service and a letter of apology to the store owner, but it will send a good signal. When time served, I would ask to some of the allowence in return for purchase of skin-photos on the net, if that is what the son need.

Corporal punishment teach only use of violence and I think that we have enough of it in the world already.